a season of association… Turning down the foul sensitivity on this game was a good decision. We aren’t gaming experts and don’t plan to spend months mastering NBA 2K16… just want to splash some long range shots and fastbreaks. Then I’m out… this is just an exhibition… The Roanoke Railguns are winning most every game…
Babe Ruth’s dominance is not respected by casual fans, nor by sports talking heads who want to whip up some controversy. Jerry West and Rick Barry and Wilt are afterthoughts to the modern sports observer, who refuses to consider that athletes were tough and fast and smart prior to 1990. This erosion of great athletes’…
The name that most often comes to mind when Steph Curry is mentioned, at least for me, is “Eddie Haskell.” Remember Eddie Haskell, the character from the “Leave it to Beaver” television show? Basically, Eddie was a slick bully and habitual liar. He would glad-hand the main characters’ parents, then turn fierce when the adults…
There is this weird push and pull between the young and the old. Not necessarily straight down the line. It is not necessarily, all old people vs. all younger people. But the divide between those who think that EVERYTHING old is bad, and those who think EVERYTHING new is bad, does exist. I heard a…
Once the 2015-16 Warriors lost to Cleveland in the NBA Finals, diehard fans were forced to unfog their glasses. That Golden State team was NOT the best in history. They did not win the title. Even the qualifier “best regular season team” is not definitive, because of the difference in era gameplay. But most importantly, the…
“Sports is where meritocracy exists.” Ever hear or read those words? Do you believe them? Be wiser not to. “The only true meritocracy is in sports. Every other field is subject to politics,” wrote one fan in a 2014 blog comment. I’m still laughing. Let’s be sober and to the point: We know the so-called…
The Boston Celtics took a team-record 46 three-pointers, early February, 2016. It was not only a team record, said Pardon the Interruption, it was the third-highest attempts in NBA history. There is a lot of noise about the high volume of three-point shots in the NBA. The opiners can’t exactly complain, because there are so many…