Damien Cox of the Toronto Star evidently saw fit to turn his shit-disturbometer up to 11 earlier this week, when he wrote a blog post essentially insinuating that the Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista was using performance-enhancing drugs. Bautista was an unheralded free-agent acquisition by the Jays two seasons ago, whose previous claim to fame was [...]
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Steinbrenner, as he’d want to be remembered
Well, I have no idea how a man I’ve never met — and who I pretty much considered the Emperor Palpatine of baseball — would want to be remembered. But with the death of former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, I figured it was as good a time as any to share a rare [...]
The King is dead. Long live the King.
Now I know why LeBron James always chalks up his hands before the start of a game.
It was long-term preparation for the most egregious, preposterous, self-indulgent wankfest the sporting world has ever seen.
The way his unprecedented hour-long live “special” last night on ESPN — dubbed The Decision — was promoted, you’d think LBJ was the [...]
On regret, redemption and handlebar moustaches
Saying “sorry” is a hard thing to do.
Scratch that — saying the word “sorry”, in a disingenuous attempt to move beyond an uncomfortable situation, is troublingly easy.
But apologizing — expressing genuine remorse for something you’ve done and the way it’s affected other people — that is hard. It’s hard because the first step is taking [...]
The Montreal Canadiens: Canada’s team?
Well, now that the looting and pillaging is done, perhaps we can speak calmly and rationally about the Habs’ progression into the Eastern Conference finals?
God dammit! Someone beat these bastards and shut their smug fans up!
Ahem. Okay, so, it’s the Habs. Calm rationality might be off the table. So let’s just briefly address the question [...]
The definitive guide to why men love golf
For the record, I don’t love golf, though I’m beginning to enjoy playing it (bought my first set of clubs yesterday!) So what authority do I have to write this post? Well, I’m a man. And that, as other on-good-authority sources will tell you, is sufficient justification for anything. So in case you were ever [...]
You’re probably sick of Tiger Woods by now, but…
… you may want to give this a look, if you haven’t already. It’s the new Nike ad featuring the world’s best 18-hole-player, his first commercial since that scandal broke:
I’ll say one thing about it… if the purpose of advertising is to provoke thought and discussion, then bravo, whoever put this ad together is clearly [...]
How to fix baseball, in five easy steps!
(Cross-posted to Infield Fly.)
With the Major League Baseball season getting underway today, it’s a yearly rite of passage for every writer with even a passing interest in the game to throw out a half-assed, half-baked bunch of theories on how to “fix” baseball — baseball, you see, is much like a sex-obsessed canine, in that [...]
3D: Doomed Disastrous Debacle
In the tech community’s ongoing quest to transform our 2D world into a 3D one, the latest salvo has been lobbed by Nintendo, with today’s announcement that it plans to develop a 3D-enabled handheld gaming device, the Nintendo 3DS. But this development doesn’t exist in isolation: many observers think 2010 will be the year that [...]