As I look forward to being pelted by rain on my way to a lecture, I can also look forward to playoff hockey on the Versus network.
That’s right hockey lovers, I said it, the jig is up!
I don’t like hockey and I never have, I’ll admit it.
I did not grow up loving soccer either, but by nature of watching and being around the game, I’ve developed a respect for it. But hockey? We just don’t mix.
Hockey takes the worst aspects from every major sport, and somehow puts them on display all at the same time. This is akin to seeing ...
The 2010 season is nearly upon us. Spring games are right around the corner, and teams are making their last minute adjustments before the real deal starts.
That means prediction time. "Experts" are letting out predictions, magazines are working as we speak, and here at Bleacher Report (though the draft steals our thunder), we're hard at work too.
Instead of a traditional preview I decided to spice it up...by soundtracking each team in the Pac-10 conference, complete with YouTube videos and runner up's.
This means there is a wide variety of music set as theme songs in preview of the 2010 season. ...
How can a player with a six-year stint in the majors, and a .200 career batting average become one of the most beloved characters in Major League Baseball?
Be Bob Uecker—that's it, fairly simply.
Milwaukee Brewers' fans are lucky enough to have the opportunity to listen to the "Ueke's" colorful and often legitimately laugh-out-loud funny commentary on a nightly basis.
Uecker, 75, will undergo major heart surgery on Friday, and most likely be out of commission for 10 to 12 weeks.
Uecker spent six seasons as a catcher with four different Major League clubs: the Milwaukee Braves (before they moved to Atlanta), the St. ...
It just sounded absurd. You don't walk eight days after knee surgery.
Yeah, run a little bit. I dare you. You're back in bed for eight weeks.
Brandon Roy took it so much farther. The Portland Trail Blazers star came back from a knee surgery just eight days before to score 10 points in 27 minutes of play in Saturday's 96-87 win in Game 4 first-round playoff win against Phoenix.
Announcers and pundits were calling it the gutsiest performance in sports history. Whoa there, hero. Before you go dealing in all that hyperbole, let's put Roy's performance up against the sickest ...
With the World Cup a month away, several aspiring footballers around the globe want to be booking a place on their national sides.
Along with those players are plenty of wives, girlfriends, and fiancées who also wish to spend a month sunning it in South Africa.
Plenty of tabloid column inches are taken up by footballers' wives and girlfriends (also known as "WAGs"), but let’s take a look at the free and single girls who will not be traveling to the World Cup.Begin Slideshow
News broke over the weekend that former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz was accused of domestic assault of his wife Jenna Jameson. On Monday, Ortiz stepped to the podium to deny those allegations, but came out swinging with his own accusations of Jameson's addiction to OxyContin. It was later reported that Jameson's father indicated that his daughter will seek charges against Ortiz.
Unfortunately, Ortiz is not the first nor the last professional athlete to be accused or charged with a domestic violence incident. There is, sad to say, a long line of athletes who for one reason or another ...
A friend of mine reminded me yesterday that "karma" can a be a real bitch sometimes.
Last month former 205-pound UFC champion cagefighter Tito Ortiz and his Huntington Beach, Calif., gal pal Jenna Jameson made a failed attempt to "smear" UFC legend Chuck Liddell—by claiming that he is a "rip-roaring" alcoholic in need of treatment.
All that drama accomplished was to possibly get Ortiz replaced on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter by Rich "Ace" Franklin, and, in addition, it likely cost Ortiz a future fight with Liddell.
So now, if the old adage that states "what comes around goes around" is true, and ...
It is no secret that the NHL is having a hard time selling tickets in the U.S.
In Canada, when the ice needs to be shovelled or hats cleared off the ice, you see kids skating out to do it…
In the U.S., you see “ice girls” come out as the NHL’s way to please the crowd and fill seats in struggling arenas.
No, I am not complaining, I just find it funny how the NHL markets itself… but I have gained a new appreciation for the Islanders and it has nothing to do with John Tavares.
But man, these women are hot... Los ...
I am writing this after reading this CBC.ca article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/04/gender-equity-girls-on-boys-sports-teams.html
There's no single right or wrong answer that can be applied to every possible case of a female athlete wanting to participate in a team sport where the rest of the team is male.
The obvious argument against having girls on a boys team is the physicality aspect. So in some cases, it depends on the sheer brutality of the sport.
As a counter to this, it also depends on how physical the female athlete's play is. Hayley Wickenheiser played hockey in the second-tier Finnish Elite League, and got along just fine.
As a general guideline, ...
Sports enthusiasts have a very human tendency to exalt the athlete above his proper station.
Reality eventually sets in - and there is something strangely reassuring when we are taught once again that no individual is larger than his sport.
Carrying that thought further, it can be downright comforting when we're reminded that even sport itself is not the ultimate pinnacle of life.
Such a revelation hit me recently in the Caster Semenya case.
With a heart for the underdog, I got in Semenya's corner from the time she lined up in the 800 meter final at Berlin's 2009 World Championships. True, she held ...
