Being a high-level athlete in any sport isn’t an easy task, and football is no exception. Generally, football players who succeed at the NCAA and NFL levels have superior physical skills that they’ve honed through a lifetime of experience playing the game and years of hard work in the weight room to build their bodies. Even experience and physical […]

Concussions and head shots have taken over hockey at all levels. It’s something that the hockey masses think the NHL needs to deal with before someone dies. It has already ended careers (ask Eric Lindros) and is now the reason why hockey fanatics watched the Penguins in the playoffs without the game’s greatest player, Sidney Crosby. Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins have […]

There’s a man with a bear on his leg that deserves your respect, not for spending his formative years as a professional athlete toiling in what was viewed by his colleagues as an NBA wasteland, not for his rapid ascent up the business side of the sport he dominated all his life immediately upon retiring […]

The conditions are ripe for the NBA’s return to Vancouver – but hold on, Seattle has dibs. On the evening of Apr. 28, the No. 8 seed Memphis Grizzlies entered the AT&T Center in San Antonio looking to knock out the No. 1 seed Spurs. Had it not been for some last second Spurs heroics and perfect […]

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.” […]

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 […]

A faceless man takes his time dribbling up a court in a crowded basketball stadium that another team calls home. He assumes that the jeers and the voracious racket pouring out onto the hardwood from the frenzied audience above are intended to distract him, but he has other things to worry about. Cautiously he approaches […]

When Brandon Morrow took the mound against the Tampa Bay Rays in early August last year, all he was looking to do was to give his Toronto Blue Jays team a chance to win. After striking out 14 batters in seven innings without allowing a single hit, he was doing exactly that, and in historic […]

At first glance Brook Lopez is an imposing figure in a Jack and the Beanstalk sort of way – especially for those unfortunate enough to have to check him in a half court offense – but a perplexing first-step combined with his undisputedly harrowing size make him more than just imposing, they make him rather […]