Sacrifice the Youth

Recently, the NFLPA asked those who are entering the 2012 draft to…well…not attend the draft.  They are asking for a rookie boycott in solidarity with the rest of the players union against the owners and league who refuse to compromise their terms of the CBA.  Smells like a lockout to me.  But enough about my … Continue reading

Bracketology 101

The madness is upon us.  Welcome to my favorite season, college basketball tournament time.  Really nothing is better than those first two glorious days of nothing but all basketball all the time.  Best two consecutive days in sports, hands down.  And the couple days before that first game are usually my idea of paradise: brackets … Continue reading

Are we built for the long run?

Yesterday, my friend Sarah and I were talking about my new and completely ridiculous goal of running a half marathon by this October.  I told her that when I run for more than a half a mile my knees hurt (she agreed), my head hurts (she agreed), my muscles felt like they were slowly separating … Continue reading

I’m a big football fan, but I also think that for an industry that’s making $9 billion a year in revenue, they can figure out how to divide it up in a sensible way and be true to their fans, who are the ones who obviously allow for all the money that they’re making. So … Continue reading