Let me set the scene for you. You’re an up and coming sports franchise that’s coming off an awful, terrible year. Flop after flop after flop. Maybe not flops as bad as Popeye or Ishtar, but close enough to give you some palpitations and night sweats — something like Jade or Silver, let’s say. Real stinkeroos. But […]
Continue reading →Once again, friends of mine, a hello! It is me, your own personal doctor for the Jockish, Ricardo Salvay, here to discuss with the likes of you some injuries that I have been read for about! Specially today, we have a triad — a three ring circus, if you could — from the National Basketball […]
Continue reading →Don’t get me started. I gotta tell ya, it’s been taking a lot of my energy and patience to keep from talking about the referees as much as I want to these days. My producers tell me that it "alienates some impartial viewers," but I could give a rat’s fig about that. I’ve been watching […]
Continue reading →Watch out, Cleveland. Don’t look now, Orlando. Wait on ordering those trophies, Los Angeles. The defending World Champions — you know, those top-heavy pretenders that everyone thought were dead in the water — are back and better than ever. Five straight wins. Five straight trips to the woodshed for folks looking to take the C’s […]
Continue reading →Since most of you think of me as a basketball personality, you probably think I’m going to talk about the dismissal of my colleague Elgin Baylor from his long-time position as the leader of the Los Angeles Clippers front office. You would be wrong. First of all, the Clippers will always be a joke no […]
Continue reading →Training camp! Pre-season games! Underperforming third-year players with stress fractures of their 5th metatarsals! Yes, it’s time for another year of the National Basketball Association, the greatest professional sports league in the history of humankind, except maybe for the CBA when I was coaching there. But, of course, just because the NBA is a great […]
Continue reading →The following fragment is here published at the request of a poet of great and deserved celebrity [William Wesley], and, as far as the Author’s own opinions are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits. In the fall of 2007, the Author, then in ill spirits due […]
Continue reading →“I love my wife“. Four little words that mean so much. Yet how many times do you see professional athletes actually say those words, or do anything to express that rarely-heard sentiment? No – you often hear about athletes cheating on their wife, or trying to cheat on their wife, or women trying to force […]
Continue reading →Hello. I am the sharpshooter known as Damon Jones. I currently ply my trade for the Cleveland Cavaliers, but I have also plied for the Miami Heat, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Sacramento Kings, the Detroit Pistons, the Vancouver Grizzlies, the Dallas Mavericks, the Golden State Warriors, the Boston Celtics, the New Jersey Nets, the Orlando […]
Continue reading →The NBA is one of my favorite leagues, and I always have something to say about it. Maybe what I have to say isn’t always as “hip” and “insightful” as some of the hoops nerds around here (j/k guys LOL), but I like to think of my writing pieces as giving the regular woman’s perspective […]
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