Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category

NASCAR and the Internet: A marriage made in heaven

Around 2003 NASCAR began its quest to get out of the South and into the mainstream. The powers-that-be decided the Internet was going to be the great liberator of the sport. They began what was, and still is today, called “trackpass.” In the beginning of this experiment, one was able to follow only a few [...]

How Big Mac got big

Sometimes, blog posts just sort of fall in your lap. To that end, you can thank today’s not-so-stunning announcement by Mark McGwire that he DID in fact use steroids in his chase to break the long coveted home run record held by Roger Maris, for saving you (and me for that matter) from a post on content anxiety. It [...]

Earth to Vick: Beggars can’t be choosers

So it seems that the sporting world has given me plenty to keep my rant plate full lately. And who better to rev my engines and start the week off than Michael Vick. I just read a very disturbing story in which Vick seems to be voicing his displeasure regarding his role with the Eagles. [...]

Have you seen this Offense?

Missing: Explosive San Francisco 49er offense capable of shredding apart secondaries with pinpoint accurate passes and carve up defensive lines with precision blocking that opened up huge holes in which a running back could run for days. Last seen in the mid to late 1990′s. They were spotted wearing the number’s 16, 8, 33, 32, 82, and 80 among [...]

Presenting the WTF?!?!? moment of this weekend

Watch this hit… Insane right? Now I know that football is a physical sport and that these types of collisions happen…but with that being said WTF were you thinking Dante Wesley? Granted, that hit was pretty awesome, he led with his shoulder, not the helmet, and left his feet, both of which are perfectly fine, [...]

The Crabtree syndrome

And really sports fans, lets call it like it is… a syndrome. Sure Michael Crabtree isn’t the first NFL player to suffer from this, but hell pigs and birds weren’t the first to have the flu either right? So for those of you not in the know, the San Francisco 49ers 1st round draft pick [...]

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