The COVID-19 pandemic has deprived all individuals of enjoying the most essential aspects of everyday life. After spending months in quarantine, many people are eager to get back to playing sports and engaging in physical activities. Given the omnipresent risk Continue reading
Kenny Smith tells one of my favorite NBA stories. It was May 1995 and San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson had just been awarded his first and only regular season MVP. Later that evening, in Game Two of the Western Continue reading
Walking into work one day, surrounded by chickens (this makes total sense if you know Ybor City), I had an idea. With all the statues being put up and torn down these days, wouldn’t it be funny if Ybor City Continue reading
I placed my lone wager for the day early Tuesday evening. Nothing over the top, just twenty bucks on a two-team parlay: Celtics minus the two, Denver Nuggets plus the seven-and-a-half. The twenty bucks, if it hit, was to come Continue reading
For any sports betting enthusiast to know about Swedish trotting is not necessarily a new thing. The sport itself has been around for over 200 years and in sports, there is the inevitability of betting on any game in the Continue reading
We’re going to make this one short and sweet, folks, since our clock is ticking. The NFL season is almost upon us. As many of you know, for the past ten years, I’ve hosted an Over/Under pick ‘em contest on Continue reading
As a child, Wayne Gretzky, one of the greatest hockey players who ever lived, would watch games with pen and paper and sketch the trajectory of the puck. Later in life, people were baffled by how he always knew where Continue reading
Jackie Robinson was one of the most influential baseball players of all time. This is Chadwick Boseman playing Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film “42.” James Brown was one of the most influential musicians of all time. Only one man Continue reading
The Philadelphia 76ers just fired their head coach, Brett Brown. While I’ve watched that basketball team plenty over the last several years, I need not have watched a single minute to conclude that Brown’s biggest mistake was his inability to Continue reading
“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” Grouch Marx “I’ll have a bloody mary and a steak sandwich and a steak sandwich. Charge it to the Underhill account.” Chevy Chase Continue reading