Allez les nerds!
Zidane, Del Piero, Daleks, Cybermen, Rabbids, it’s all the same.
Zidane, Del Piero, Daleks, Cybermen, Rabbids, it’s all the same.
Or at least for the Twins and Heat.
Hip new sports, Americans hoisting themselves by their own petard, and more gnashing of teeth over my continuing lack of cable.
Basketball is a beautiful game, but what’s really great (or awful, or awfully great) about it is that it’s a space where issues of race, class, and gender collide and swirl around, conflicts and questions played out and mashed up on a stage for all to see.
Riding the bus this morning, I saw a kid wearing a Carmelo Anthony jersey. This wasn’t sky blue-and-white Nuggets gear, though; this was the yellow and red of Oak Hill Academy.
Duncan grabbed the offensive rebound, pump-faked, and put the ball in the hole, drawing a foul. Then — and you could see the monkeys flying off his back as he shot it — he hit the free throw.
The Spurs and the Pistons are both defensive-oriented teams, but beyond that, they have very different styles.
Game 5 of the NBA Finals was far and away the biggest, best game of Robert Horry’s long playoff career.
When your team is down by 21 points and Darko Milicic is on the floor with four minutes left in the game, you know it’s over.
For fair-weather fans riding the Heat and Suns bandwagons, this matchup is going to be a slow, ugly grind, but even if you’re not a fan of great defense, both teams are capable of executing a lovely half-court offense.
Late in the game, Nicole Ohlde finally realized that there was no way that Margo “Shawn Bradley” Dydek could keep up with her, and started spinning around her at will.
I had totally forgotten that today was to be the “official” launch date for the site until I heard a plug for it on the radio.
It’s terrible, being relieved that your favorite team’s season is over.
It’s spring, people, and I am giddy. Giddy!
Both of my teams are stuck in mediocrity, and I’ve been reduced to the most abject, pathetic state a basketball fan can find himself in.
Apparently, the best way to shed the JailBlazer image is to find someone even crazier than you.
A quick note to the Boston Red Sox and to sportswriters everywhere.
For the first time since I’ve started following the WNBA, I didn’t really have an emotional investment in either of the teams playing in the Finals. That didn’t stop me from enjoying them, though.
It was a busy night in sporting, as baseball and women’s basketball both had important playoff games played. The future of our political landscape also hung in the balance, but that’s nothing compared to five double plays.
The Lynx were knocked out of the playoffs by Seattle, doomed by their propensity towards turnovers. Now there’s nothing left but to look ahead to another offseason of rebuilding.
The USA didn’t lose this game; Argentina won it. That’s not what you’ll hear from all the fans and pundits, though.
As strange as it sounds, the U.S. almost upset an undefeated Lithuanian team today, but melted down in the last few minutes to give up another Olympic game.
The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team is not playing in an exhibition tournament. Someone forgot to tell them this, and they lost in a big way to an overachieving Puerto Rican team.
Because everyone knows: pod people don’t get any run support.
Michelle Van Gorp talks about being a lesbian in the WNBA, same-sex marriage, and various other issues.
Detroit finally put the Lakers out of their ever-increasing misery tonight, winning Game 5 and the championship, 100-87.
I get to enjoy another season of watching the most smug (smuggest?) team on earth play for yet another set of rings to add to its collection.
I spent most of my time marvelling at the cushy first-row seats I was sitting in, but I managed to pay a little attention to the game and jotted a few notes about the players while I watched.
A hotshot draft prospect named Lindsay Whalen, however, has thrown a wrench in my armchair GM plotting.
For the first time in 22 years, the Portland Trail Blazers will not be participating in the NBA playoffs.
I’ve happily jumped on the M’sota Gophers bandwagon, following Janel McCarville and Lindsay Whalen on their impressive run through the NCAA tournament.
Portland has somehow managed to trade Rasheed to Atlanta for Shareef Abdur-Raheem and Theo Ratliff.
You might lose a game now and then, and the Timberwolves have definitely lost their share over the years, but you will never lose because of KG.
It looks like management is starting to make some moves to repair the team’s image, trading Bonzi Wells for Wesley Person, a draft pick, and cash.
What’s nearly impossible to simulate is the pleasure of watching bodies in motion, sweat and muscle moving through space to put a ball through a small hole.
The Florida Marlins beat New York tonight, 2-0, to win the 2003 World Series.
The Marlins make it really hard to root against them, continually small-balling and gut-checking their way to wins.
The Twins won with their fielding, the Yankees lost with their lack of the same, and closer Eddie Guardado treated us to the usual heart attack.
Now to see who the opposing team is (probably the Damn Yankees).
The Detroit Shock beat the Los Angeles Sparks, 83-78, to win the WNBA Championship.
After a huge second-half comeback, Minnesota is now unbeaten against L.A. in playoff games, thanks to Tamika Williams’s last-minute steal and layup.
The Lynx have clinched a playoff berth for the first time in team history.
Is it ever OK to root for the Yankees?
The San Antonio Spurs beat the New Jersey Nets tonight 88-77, to win the 2003 NBA Championship.
Some quotes from the game.
84-79 is the kind of score you see in a high school playoff game, not in an NBA championship series.
Svetlana Abrosimova is a stud. I don’t know if it’s ok to refer to WNBA players as “studs”, but when you’re battling for rebounds and leading the fast break like that, “stud” is the word that comes to my mind.
A good solid game, and we can go into the offseason with our dignity intact, which is more than anyone expected after a season that could be politely described as “tumultuous.”
Today’s game against L.A. was the only Blazer game this season to be broadcast on ABC, so I made a point of watching it. And my boys made it worth it, with a huge 101-99 win over the dread Lakers.
Going into the last week of the NBA season, the Blazers have managed to distract themselves yet again with another round of citations and infighting.