Most sports fans can think of a few ultimate high points in their watching career. My peak moment came at the ripe old age of 7.
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Jason deCaires Taylor – Vicissitudes – Moilinere Bay, Grenada – 2011
Sculptures placed in the bay are forming a new reef. Continue reading
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
The Tour de France is:
A. The world’s premier cycling road race.
B. A three week long commercial for French tourism; or
C. The cause of a lot of late nights and early mornings for fans around the world. Continue reading
The alarm went off at 5:45 AM and I immediately bolted out of bed. Despite having to get up at the early hour during a) my vacation and b) a federal holiday, I was excited to run this race. My parents ran the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race every summer we lived in Atlanta (1987-94) and it’s a city tradition. Just like any other race, I had carefully laid out my race clothes the night before. We had planned to leave at 6:15 AM, but we were actually out closer to 6:25 AM. Not too bad considering I was mentally aiming for a 6:30 AM departure time. My parents and an elementary school friend I met with on Sunday warned me that MARTA (Atlanta’s public transportation system) would be crazy. I would gauge that most people in the Atlanta metro area use their cars to get around and MARTA is simply an afterthought. Continue reading
Being that I’m very excited that this is Wimbledon week (ok, 2nd week), I thought it would be fun to go back and revisit what is considered one of the greatest moments in tennis ever,…ever: The 1980 Wimbledon Men’s Singles final between John McEnroe and Björn Borg. In my book there might’ve been a few more but for today at least, this one is it and it is historical. Continue reading
One of the most storied soccer clubs in South America, River Plate of Argentina, a club which has won the Argentinian league 33 times in its 110 year history, was yesterday relegated to the 2nd division for the first time ever.
River Plate fans did not take this well. Their final match was stopped a minute before the appropriately-named injury time as irate fans, obviously not believing in their team mounting a comeback from 2 goals down, began to charge the ground and throw objects at the players and referees. Opposition fans were forced to stay for hours in a closed off section of the stadium surrounded by police, while River Plate fans set things on fire, smashed shops, threw rocks at the police, and generally behaved like soccer hooligans. Continue reading
I like to party, you like to party, we all like to party. But do you party as hard as these six ballers?
Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara, Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand, and Shawn Thornton know how to do bottle service correctly. Their bar tab totaled over $156,000 from one night at the Foxwood’s Casino. I’ll grant you $100,000 was spent on 1 30 liter bottle of Champagne, but here’s a list of six other things they could have bought for $26,113.29 (each person’s share of the tab.) Continue reading
If you love soccer, or you love sports, or loves someone who loves either (or you just love shirtless pictures of Carlos Bocanegra, manmeat defender for Saint-Etienne and Team USA), do yourself a favor and go pick up Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch. The book details how a young Hornby first discovered soccer growing up in England and examines how the game has affected every part of his life. It’s my all-time favorite book, and I have a habit of reading it every summer when the European soccer season is gearing up. I also have a habit of buying used copies and sending them to people, always with the same quote transcribed on the inside cover:
“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”