Rajon Rondo has turned the Boston Celtics Big Three into the Big Four.
The Ascension of Rondo
Much has been made about Rajon Rondo’s fabulous triple-double–29 points, 13 assists and 18 rebounds–in Game 4 of the Boston Celtics’ Eastern Conference Semifinals series against the Celtics Cavaliers. As eye-popping as his numbers were (particularly the 18 boards, [...]

Reflections on the NBA season so far and what is to come in the playoff stretch.
NBA Mid-Season Highs and Lows
Up to now, NBA articles have been conspicuously missing on Deep Into Sports for the 2009-2010.
I’ll admit it: the NBA is my least favorite of the Big Four sports leagues. I like the sport of [...]

Could Winter 2009-2010 be one of the most disappointing sports seasons ever?
Sports Disappointments, On and Off the Field
Sports, by their very nature, are filled with disappointment. To quote Highlander, “There can be only one.” In any given sport, in any given event, a single, solitary champion (okay, college football occasionally accepted, more on [...]

Considering how Deep Into Sports has recently been criticizing the plague of poor calls by umpires during the 2009 Major League Baseball playoffs (both in comments and in Gairzo’s article, “Umpires”), I thought our readers would be interested in checking out the excerpts from Tim Donaghy’s hitherto unpublished book, Blowing the Whistle, on deadspin.com (if [...]

A few weeks ago I was listening to a morning radio program and the announcers read a list they found on the Internet of the “Top Ten American Sports Franchises”. Quite simply, the list was a complete joke full of bias for and against certain cities as well as entire sports (basketball was over-represented, [...]

Several months ago I commented upon a Yahoo! Sports article on Hasheem Thabeet and his importance to his native Tanzania, an article which really hit home for me having lived in that country two years myself.
It may not have quite the personal connotations for me, but Yahoo! has done it again with Todd Pitman’s piece [...]

The Lakers’ victory parade is today, at a cost of $2 million. Half of that is to be covered by the Lakers organization; the other half by the city.
Although a certain hardcore Lake Show fanatics couldn’t care less from where the money came, another sizable percentage of Los Angeles residents–Lakers fans among them–were understandably [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings are on the verge of a surprisingly (or perhaps not so surprisingly) infrequent occurrence, that of meeting in the Stanley Cup Finals for two straight seasons. Although such repeat showdowns are not common these days in any of the Big Four sports (the last time it [...]

Coming into the postseason, the smart money in NBA Betting was on a Lakers – Cavaliers showdown in the NBA Finals.
As the Conference Finals progress, that inevitability is appearing less and less certain, with each game in both the East and the West being extremely hard-fought and evenly matched.
Of course, any time a heavy favorite [...]

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