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As sports fans, we all have our bucket list items. I’ve been to Augusta National three times. I’ve been to multiple Stanley Cup championship games and even saw the trophy hoisted in 2004. I’ve been to an NBA Finals game, Continue reading Sean Mo’s No-No: SportsChump correspondent witnesses history in Cincinnati
Few athletes in the history of sport have been as controversial as Pete Rose. Never has a conversation taken place between sports fans that hasn’t included the obligatory question: “Should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame?” His is Continue reading Book Review: Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O’Brien
In 1994, Major League Baseball cancelled its World Series. It was the first time in American history that had ever happened. Our national pastime reminded all those watching that baseball was first and foremost, a business. It was a shock Continue reading Cable cancels ESPN’s culture (and other confusing conundrums)
Have you ever experienced one of those eerie, bigger-than-life moments where you suddenly and startlingly realize that everything is right and proper with the universe and that you are smack dab, exactly where you are supposed to be at that Continue reading Domingo German’s perfect game night no match for our family’s
Major League Baseball once again made history while no one noticed. The Houston Astros had a no-hitter the other night! In the Game Four of the World Series no less! And we barely celebrated. Womp womp! There are a few Continue reading The Lost Art of the Start
The Tampa Bay Rays post-season came and went. If you blinked, you missed it. For their efforts, a fairly successful regular season in which they went 86-76, the Rays earned a wild card berth, just not a prime-time game (small Continue reading Three strikes and you’re out… of home games: The inequity of Major League Baseball’s new but not improved post-season format
The best book I’ve read about baseball’s steroid era was Jose Canseco’s “Vindicated,” his follow up to the ground-breaking, tell-all tale “Juiced.” After all, who better to write a book about steroids than the man most associated with them? The Continue reading Book Review: Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever by Dan Good
Yet another episode of Point-Counterpoint as brought to you by Twin brothers from another mother, both born on the 13th of July. Introduction by SportsChump: Oh, Major League Baseball, how you disappoint me. Let me count the ways. What’s most Continue reading Point-Counterpoint: The Madison Bumgarner “No-Hitter” by J-Dub and SportsChump
For as long as I can remember, my father has been in the automobile industry. From working in the mail room as a kid trying to make a living, to basic financing as a young adult, to running businesses overseas, Continue reading Mariners sink deep
I sat in the Buckhorn clubhouse with Vargas and Figueroa after somehow simultaneously managing a shitty and excellent round of golf. Note: Vargas and Figueroa are not sidekicks from a 70s cop show, even though the names sound like it Continue reading “Extra, Extra! Read all about the Extra in Extras!”
