(A response to Gene Wojciechowski’s column on ESPN.com, “After Tiger, in whom should we believe?“) We don’t need another hero to worship, Gene Wojciechowski. We don’t need another athlete who will prove to us yet again that humanity is fallen, even if it can accomplish unthinkable feats on the court or the girdiron or the [...]
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gods of America
Posted in america, espn, Sports on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
peter gammons, sportswriting, and me
Posted in baseball, biography, espn, gospel on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometime during my high school years and college years I got my heart set on being a sportswriter. Maybe it was that my first assignment covering sports for the Jackson Progress-Argus (Jackson, GA) was covering my high school’s basketball team that went undefeated until the last game of the regular season and all the excitement that built [...]
Kurkjian & Stark on Chipper and the Braves
Posted in braves, Chipper Jones, espn, Jayson Stark, Tim Kurkjian on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Worldwide Leader has two good spots on the Braves right now worth checking out. The pieces are the usual, looking at the past success of the Braves and comparing it to what’s going on in Atlanta today. This practice, I imagine, will continue until Cox, Chipper and Glavine head outta town (5 years more [...]
The 10 Spot
Posted in baseball, braves, espn, fantasy sports on May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ten random thoughts… No rhyme or reason… 10. I’ve just found the worst broadcast combination in Baseball, Darren Sutton and Mark Grace of Fox Sports. Yes, worse than Joe Morgan. At least he has Jon Miller to support him. Listening to Darren Sutton and Mark Grace is like listening to Joe Morgan broadcasting with his [...]
Brave New World
Posted in braves, espn on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Braves are younger than the Mets and Phillies, deeper in most respects than the Mets and Phillies and have a better farm system to mine for reinforcements than the Mets and Phillies.” -Jason Stark, ESPN, in his column predicting the Braves to win the World Series. Click here for the full-text. I’ll give my [...]
Mock Bubbles
Posted in espn, march madness, nfl draft on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m hoping to keep this quick this week… But there’s two things that are completely useless in the world of sports (Unless your name is Joe Lunardi or Todd McShay or Mel Kiper, Jr. – The ESPNians who make there living off of the following…): Mock Drafts and The Bubble Watch. The NFL Draft is [...]
I find this Offensive.
Posted in atlanta falcons, espn, michael vick, nfl draft on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
aThe draft is months away. And in the fast-paced, up-and-down world of the National Football League there is no predicting what will happen between now and then. Trades, free agency, injuries and a plethora of off-the-field issues could change everything that the experts at ESPN foresee right now. But, in the media-driven sports world, the [...]
