World Gone Mad

It's a baaaad day for white athletes everywhere. Matt Jones (mug shot, right), Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver - busted for coke and pot. Dude was caught chopping yay-yo with a credit card, had a bag of yay on him and a bag of chronic. Hmmm, snort some yay to get up, puff puff a J to take the edge off, [read more...]

O. J. Mayo Report 2: Investigation, the ESPN Way

ed. note - read D-Wil's Monday column on O.J. Mayo here. Chapter 2 of Marc Isenberg's book, Money Players: A Guide to Success in Sports, Business & Life for the Current and Future Pro Athletes, is titled, "College Rules!" The initial words of the chapter are these from sports agent Richard Woods: "As soon as you have given a player money you have [read more...]

Race and Sports: Maybe If the Cards are Laid Out on the Table…?

Racism, the 21st century version, is as insidious as it has been at any point in U.S. history. Gone are the days of knowing which side of the tracks to live to distinguish white and black. Gone are the days of knowing that for a black person, to cross those tracks is to cross at one's own peril. Though those [read more...]

Michael Vick: If It Keeps On Rainin’ the Levee’s Gonna Break

On September 3, 2003, in a scene out of the Pablo Escobar story, IRS agents and local authorities flooded the ground around the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) with bullet-proof vested SWAT agents and ducked behind cars like they were being fired on by South American coca security. In the air above, helicopters hovered like Japanese sci-fi prehistoric wasps. However, [read more...]

Where Have You Gone, Lil’ Penny?

So I came up with this great idea for a column. Why not write about the way two of the greatest athletes of their respective sports are carving out their Hall of Fame plaques right before our eyes? Good idea, huh?But in between the time the idea hit me -- while desperately trying to avoid talking to certain neighbors at [read more...]

10 Things We Learned About the NFL This Season

Just like that, another NFL season has come and gone. Sorry, the Pro Bowl doesn't count since yours truly is currently an alternate at safety in the NFC right now. The excruciating dead period between the end of football and the beginning of baseball is upon us, and since I'll never make it to April writing nothing but Winter Olympics and [read more...]

What We Learned From Week 1 in the NFL

There are few things more meaningless than preseason games in the National Football League, aside from Kanye West's political beliefs and Richard Hatch's tax return. The results actually count in the standings after Week 1, so this is the first true test to see which coaches have made the right adjustments, which free agent signings will pay off, and which [read more...]

Owens Flunks NFL Public Relations 101

It'll always be easy to find Terrell Owens. His is a path littered with massive smoke signals from all the burnt bridges. And it's actually getting close to the phrase one ESPN executive used to describe Keith Olbermann's exit from the network back in the late '90's. "He didn't just burn bridges, he napalmed them." Yesterday, Detroit Lions quarterback Jeff Garcia responded to [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Sports Haiku

Jason Giambi Might be shipped to the minors? Boo-hoo-hoo - roider. World Cup of Baseball Mmmm, I am salivating. It's about freakin' time! Steroids and Congress There's nothing more important? Osama's juicing? Jenny from the block Is really only that way, Inside her movies. Yankees are crappy. Sorry, I like that in print. They kinda suck though. Steve Nash, MVP. Deservedly over Shaq. The Diesel's got Wade. Speaking of Dwyane Wade, He's quicker than Giambi's Post-hearings weight loss Early returns in. New [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Pour Some Out For…

My friend Goetz and I spend nearly all of our time on-line. I suppose you could say we both do it for work-related purposes, but regardless, the "Internet" has kept us in touch about 99.99999% more than we would otherwise. When we aren't sending each other disgusting links to Pat O'Brien sexual harassment phone calls or some random dude singing into [read more...]

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