Physician, Stop Healing!

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 […]

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That Thing Around Your Neck Is Called A Whistle

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 […]

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Brian’s Song

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 […]

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How Will These NBA Teams Disappoint Me This Year?

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 […]

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Kevin Garnett (Or: An NBA Championship Realized)

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 […]

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