The 2005 NHL lockout was a good time to be a sports fan in Canada, and especially a basketball fan. With the only hockey half a world away and a limited demand for games from 1985, it seemed like a NBA game on every evening; sometimes it was closer to two or three. The playoffs were especially […]

When it comes to the NFL Draft, there is one pick every team wishes they had. One pick teams strive for, one pick they work for all year. This year the team with that pick took a player at an important position that they hope will help shore up their offense for years to come. And […]

Robert Cecil Cole, or Bob Cole, is a walking mystery. His resume says he should have called his last hockey game a decade-and-a-half-ago when he was a member of the 1996 Hockey Hall of Fame induction class. Despite all odds though, the time-tested media industry veteran has yet to hang up the microphone for good – […]

It’s completely acceptable for a man to cry in public; especially when that man is Michael Jordan and especially when he’s won his first NBA championship. It’s impossible to forget such an image. There he was, His Airness, clutching the Larry O’Brien trophy like a parent who found their missing child. Tears, mixed with sweat, ran down […]

The NFL Draft is one of the strangest spectacles in all of sports. The draft itself is, of course, quite simple: each NFL team picks from the top NCAA players over a series of seven rounds with teams picking in a predetermined order. In the past, the draft was not subject to much speculation and was covered […]

In stark contrast to last spring, the streets of Montreal are quiet. There is no boisterous crowd; no chanting, no cheering. There isn’t a mob of ebullient people marching down Sainte-Catharine Street chanting “ole, ole, ole.” Most importantly, especially for Montreal Police, there are no cars on fire, no smashed windows, no looting and no […]

If it was up to Andrew McCutchen, he’d be in a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform for his entire career. “I plan on being here, that’s the mindset. This is where I want to be, ” he said. “I don’t want to go anywhere, and I’m going to be here for as long as they want me to be here.” […]

Your typical NFL fan has many major football dates circled on their calendar: kickoff weekend, rivalry games, and of course the Super Bowl, just to name a few. This past week was one of the largest dates of the year; the NFL Draft. Besides the millions who watched the event from home, some of the most dedicated fans […]

Antawn Jamison has been a lot of things over the course of his basketball life; a homegrown hoops hero, Chapel Hill icon, blue chip prospect, promising young NBA stud, under-appreciated star, award-winning reserve, under-appreciated All-Star, helpless witness to a franchise collapse, three-time tradee, helpless witness to another franchise collapse, and finally, wise old veteran. Naturally he knows what […]

When the Tampa Bay Rays shipped Matt Garza to Chicago this offseason, they robbed the Cubs of a bounty of prospects. On top of prying away Chicago’s best pitching prospect and Pitcher of the Year Chris Archer, the Rays also snagged slick-fielding Korean shortstop Hak-Ju Lee, who was ranked as the Cubs’ fourth-best prospect by Baseball America. Add in Brandon […]