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I hope you’ve been paying attention to these weekly posts because my picks so far have been nothing if not cinematic. In Weeks One and Two, I was like Keanu Reeves at the beginning of the Matrix. I hadn’t yet Continue reading 2021 Week 4: The Wife Hates SportsChump Take on Queen of The Internet: Lisa Horne
This off-season NBA fans have suffered through the unfortunate tale of two lottery picks who cannot get along, or perhaps better stated, one who can no longer coexist with the franchise that drafted him. After finishing the 2015-16 season with Continue reading Guards and Big Men: The Just Can’t Get Along Edition featuring Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid
As you all know, Dr. Milhouse and I have a gambling problem… although as any seasoned gambler will tell you, it’s not the gambling that’s the problem, it’s the losing. Fortunately, we didn’t do too much of that this weekend. Continue reading Spotty Coverage, 66-Yard Field Goals, Missed Four-Teamers and My New Favorite Underdog: In Other Words, Just Another Weekend of Glorious Football
As we continue onward with this weekly exercise, I want to be very clear about what we’re doing. Yes, this is a competition between me, our celebrity guests and that guy named Kevin who runs that other website. However, it Continue reading 2021 Week 3: The Wife Hates SportsChump and Dr. Milhouse boards the Edmund Fitzgerald
I have a few questions. For a while now, the NBA has been force-feeding us this whole “mid-season tournament” idea while we continue to push it away like a kid does his vegetables. Commissioner Silver and Co. have been testing Continue reading The NBA’s mid-summer nightmare
Remember that old 1950s ditty called “Accentuate the Positive?” Of course, you don’t and neither do I. The point is the second line of that song goes “eliminate the negative.” Not one of the three of us did that last Continue reading 2021 Week 2: The Wife Hates SportsChump Reunites with our old friend, J-Dub
Dave Zirin would like to remind you that Colin Kaepernick is not the only athlete to take a knee for a cause he believed in. Dave Zirin would also like to remind you that, in far less publicized cases, countless Continue reading Book Review: Dave Zirin’s “The Kaepernick Effect”
My girlfriend laughs at me. She does that often, very careful to explain that she’s laughing at me, and not with me. And she doesn’t laugh only because hers is a considerably better Marlon Brando Godfather impression than mine. Again, Continue reading Drafting Old Guys: My Week One Spent with Matt Ryan
And so it begins, our season-long battle for the ages. To the victor go the spoils! With so many games to choose from on both the college and NFL slate, picking five, sure-fire winners week after week should be, as Continue reading 2021 Week 1: The Wife Hates SportsChump adds Croshere for some opening closure
Kevin Paul has thrown down the gauntlet. That name might ring a bell as he’s the mastermind behind The Wife Hates Sports. He’d probably tell you that his wife is the mastermind behind the site… and he’d be right. Kevin Continue reading SportsChump versus The Wife Hates Sports in a Wagering Battle for the Ages!!!
