If Paul Millsap fell in the woods, would he make a sound? Trick question. Paul Millsap wouldn’t fall in the woods because he would be too busy shooting 60 percent from the field while playing the role of most underrated basketball player in the NBA and hoarding enough offensive rebounds to sink a small fishing […]

Michael Vick had a message for you on Monday night. Well, you in a broad sense, you meaning the rest of the NFL, you meaning the haters who call into talk radio and ask why he wasn’t banned for life from the sport, you meaning all the people who doubted he could still lead a […]

Six years ago, the world was a different place. Barack Obama wasn’t president, Miley Cyrus was 11 years old and Dwight Howard didn’t look like a sentient robot created by the US Army in an attempt to construct a military weapon capable of singlehandedly ending the war on terrorism. Hurricane Katrina hadn’t ruined the gulf […]

Keith Van Horn’s pale, gaunt face haunts me while I sleep. Not in a Paranormal Activity 2 way, but a Charles Dickens-meets-W.P. Kinsella sort of way. Monthly at first, then weekly. Now almost every damn night. So imagine, if you will, falling asleep with the seven-foot silhouette of a man watching you through your doorway, […]

If you make a song about wolves, I’m going to listen. If you design a t-shirt with the silhouette of a wolf pack howling in the moonlight, I’m going to buy it. And I’ll wear it too; I don’t even care if it’s uncomfortable. So naturally I’ve found myself drawn to a certain basketball franchise […]

It felt like I was hit by a sack of bricks. There I was on a lazy Sunday afternoon; folding my laundry and listening to a baseball game on the radio. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim were hosting the Toronto Blue Jays. Midway through the match, Jerry Howarth, the long-time Blue Jay announcer, stated […]

Amar’e Stoudemire is an expensive bundle of generously damaged goods, so it comes as no surprise that the New York Knicks are guarding their most recent investment with a desperate passion that only a team weeks removed from the biggest heart-break in franchise history could. It all traces back to a certain microfracture knee surgery. […]

Fans of the Toronto Raptors are passionate. They live and die by the team with a full range of emotions based on the club’s performance. And while passion has positive results, it also has negative ones too. There are two players in the National Basketball Association – New York Knicks guard Tracy McGrady and Orlando […]

I’ve been a dog person for about as long as I’ve been a person and certainly longer than I’ve been a people person. When I found out that the Toronto Raptors were bringing back the Toronto Huskies get-up for a few games this season I assumed that I would fall in love with the concept […]

Hey, look, November is more than half over and Brandon Jennings – if numbers are to be trusted – is a legitimate force in the NBA. Other words: It’s ten games into the 2009-10 campgain and the Milwaukee Bucks are third in the Eastern Conference at 8-3. Does this not strike anybody else as odd? […]