Posts Tagged ‘David Stern’

SportsChump proudly presents our First Annual NBA Predict the Future Contest

December 20th, 2011 by Chris Humpherys

Like Santa’s sleigh bearing a trunkful of presents, the NBA season is less than a week away, which means we soon get to unwrap a bevy of dunkalicious tidings stuffed ever so neatly into our Christmas stockings. Read the rest of this entry »

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How Chris Paul and Dwight Howard proved the NBA lockout resolved absolutely nothing

December 12th, 2011 by Chris Humpherys

It was bound to happen.  Read the rest of this entry »

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The courtship of Kobe Bryant: Breaking up is hard to do

October 6th, 2011 by Chris Humpherys

We’ve all been there.

We’ve all had partners in our past where, over time, the relationship ran its course due to arguing, bickering and the inability to see eye to eye. Read the rest of this entry »

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Upset Central in the NBA Playoffs: Hawks and Hornets and Grizzlies, Oh My!

April 19th, 2011 by Chris Humpherys

What a wild opening weekend for the NBA’s second season.  Is it just me or have these playoffs already taken on a March Madness feel?  We’ve even had Tyler Hansbrough and Shane Battier sightings!!!

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Memorable moments of 2010: The SportsChump Year in Review

December 31st, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

The final days of 2010 are upon us, which means that SportsChump has completed its first full calendar year.  Thanks to all who have come and gone and ahem… come again.

SportsChump first went viral in April, 2008 which means we’re rapidly approaching our terrible twos.  Consider that fair warning. Read the rest of this entry »

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Brushes with sports greatness, Vol. 3: David Stern

October 18th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

The year was 1995.

I was putting the final touches on a masters thesis I had no interest in writing.  I was equally uneager to see what the real world had to offer in terms of employment. Read the rest of this entry »

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So you want to be Commissioner: A multiple choice test

October 14th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

Nobody ever said being the boss was easy.

Four of the world’s more powerful men, Messrs. Selig, Stern, Bettman and Goodell, commissioners of Major League Baseball, the NBA, NHL and NFL respectively, have come under a fair amount of scrutiny in recent years.  Read the rest of this entry »

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They said what?!? Andy Reid on Kevin Kolb, Roger Staubach on the NFL and Phil Jackson on the Miami Heat.

September 30th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

Wherefore art thou, Donovan? Read the rest of this entry »

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Cuban Heats Up Miami

July 13th, 2010 by Guest Authors

It’s a tough world for Mark Cuban. Not to knock anyone who made a fortune in excess of two billion dollars. But to go from computer ubernerd into the NBA with a revamped image of an engaged, tough, devil-may-care persona and actually keep it on overdrive has to be hard work. Read the rest of this entry »

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Can Stephen Strasburg save Major League Baseball?

June 17th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

I recently attended my first major league baseball game of the 2010 season.  The game took place at Tropicana Field between two of the league’s best teams: the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays.  Read the rest of this entry »

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