Remember when Biorhythms became popular in the late 1970s? They were supposed to be some new-age scientific phenomenon that explained your mood swings. For example, if you were having a down patch, that was because your biorhythms were low. If Continue reading
Years ago, on his weekly radio show, Jim Rome would begin his Mondays wondering whether he would get through the week without talking about someone in sports doing something asinine. This would range from the inane to the profane, from Continue reading
Remember that Liam Neeson line from the movie Taken, where he tells the men who kidnapped his daughter that he has “a very particular set of skills?” I also have a very particular set of skills: not being able to Continue reading
Allow me to sit here in my judgy chair, put on my judgy pants and rant judgingly about a man that was recently caught in a rather compromising position. Keep in mind the man I’m about to lambast once coached Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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