Miami football. It’s an institution. Is it coming to an end?
The Orange and Green have won 5 national championships. 9 Conference championships. From 2000 to 2003 they had 34 consecutive wins. 188 games without being shut out from 1979-1994. Miami star players go to the NFL. That’s just the way it is. Continue reading
It’s been just over three months since Manchester United secured their 19th Premier League title by drawing 1-1 at Blackburn, but for soccer fans in England and abroad the EPL off-season seems as long and gray as a London winter. American football’s off-season is over twice as long, but at least we have basketball, hockey, and baseball to keep us company.
The Premier League is like the NBA, NHL, MLB, and Real Housewives of Manchester all rolled up into an annual nine-month long soap opera. It has drama, skill, heartbreak and triumph all acted out by highly skilled and impeccably trained practitioners of the beautiful game. So stakes were high when the first balls were kicked on Saturday to uphold the long, proud tradition of 120+ years of professional English football. Continue reading
Back in June the awesomely-nicknamed Japanese driver Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima became the first driver to ever run the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in under 10 minutes.
The hillclimb is amazingly simple: Try to haul your ass up to the Pikes Peak summit via the partially-paved road, and do it as fast as you can.
Monster broke the record in a 910 hp Suzuki SX4 and his sponsor GoPro, the makers of a line of tiny HD cameras, has put out this incredible video showing the entire run from just about every angle.
The 2011 Crasstalk Fantasy Football League is here. We will open up as many leagues as we need to accommodate everyone, so if you want to play, come join in the fun! Continue reading
A big reason why I love basketball so much is growing up in the 90s in suburban Chicago under the magic of Michael Jordan and the Bulls. One of my first memories growing up is my dad coming home from Montgomery Ward with a brand new Mitsubishi 46-inch TV and watching Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals, or more commonly known as “The Shrug” game.
We start off with a reminder of just how spoiled people were in the 90s. The NBA on the NBC was the pinnacle of sports broadcasting and it’s kind of painful to think of how crappy it’s become. The theme music! Let John Tesh course through your veins. Continue reading
Randy Moss was loved and hated, awe-inspiring and lazy, respected and disrespectful, a great teammate and a locker room enemy. Sometimes he was all of these things at once, even within the same game.
He poured out his heart (and his wallet) for disadvantaged kids in Minnesota and back home in West Virginia, but once berated a Vikings caterer claiming he wouldn’t feed the, uh, stuff, to his dog.
He preached to his fellow teammates about the importance of film study, but would routinely take whole plays off during games sometimes barely moving out of his stance. Randy knew how to work the referees and get calls no other receiver could get, but he would blow up at them at a moment’s notice when a call didn’t go his way. Continue reading
This NFL off-season is only five days old and it’s already been crazier than an Al Davis press conference/embalming. There have been about a billion trades and free agent signings.
One player that won’t be re-signed is Randy Moss. Moss retired today as one of the greatest wide receivers to ever play the game. He’s also known for pretending to moon the Green Bay fans during a game, spraying a referee in the face with a water bottle, referring to himself in the third-person singular and selectively deciding to take plays (and entire games) off.
But despite the mercurial behavior, Moss was one of the most talented athletes in NFL history and whether you were rooting for him or against him, he made Sundays a lot more fun.
Now that the lockout is finally over and players are reporting to training camps across the land, fans can start to think about what really matters this coming season – their team’s chances to win it all. It’s not uncommon to see football fans immersed in NFL Network programming while also researching players, schedules, and bye weeks on their laptop. But look carefully and you’ll notice how seemingly uninterested they may be in their favorite actual team. A diehard Giants fan looking up the Cowboys’ bye week? A Patriots fan combing over the Jets’ wide receiver depth chart? A Raiders fan reading, intently, a report of how Denver quarterback Tim Tebow has prepared this off season? These things 20 years ago would’ve been blasphemy, enough to warrant a CAT scan and possibly a permanent relocation out of the rabid fan section. These days, they’re musts for any fantasy football manager with a shot to bring home the title.
In preparation for fantasy football drafts, we’re going to do a quick course in all things fantasy. We’ll start off slowly, with the basics, before getting a bit more into team setup & draft strategy, and weekly transactions. Continue reading
Our (not so) long national nightmare is over. The world will continue to spin on fall Sundays – bars and stadiums will still be full, yards will still be left undone, and non-football fans will still need to find something to do with other non-football fans. Owners and the union formerly known as the NFL Players Association have tentatively reached an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, ending the four and a half month lockout.
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