The “using golf as a metaphor for father-son relationships” angle for a sportswriting piece is, to me, something that 99,999 out of 100,000 times should never be broached. It might have made for good reading back in the ’60′s when Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer could be appreciated by both Establishment parents and their Baby [...]
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August 30, 2010
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Twenty Years Ago
By MDS in Opinion, Sports, WrestlingThe term “life changing” is one that by default has a percentage of hyperbole attached to it. I can say unequivocally that the first time I listened to The Velvet Underground & Nico it changed my life within the confines of how I listened to music and ingested art in general. But to someone who [...]
October 8, 2009
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If I Were King Of The Sports World
By MDS in Opinion, Sports[Full disclosure: this idea stems from a Sports Guy article (I believe from a mailbag article or a chat) on espn.com. Ever since I read this idea I have tried to figure out how it could all work and I think I have found out how to do it. The idea is to completely re-vamp [...]
July 3, 2009
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The Next Big Bubble
By MDS in Opinion, Society, SportsOne of the greatest scenes in Airplane II: The Sequel is when the flight attendant Elaine (played by Julie Hagerty) tells the passengers that they are headed towards the sun and certain death: Elaine: “Please, ladies and gentlemen, please calm down. Listen to me!” [the passengers calm down] Elaine: “We’ve been thrown off course just [...]
June 22, 2009
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And Then Kant Said To Kierkegaard, “Nuh-uh, Apollo Was The Greatest Greek God Ever…”
By MDS in Opinion, SportsIn the last couple of weeks two events have occurred in the sports world—Roger Federer winning a career Grand Slam and tying Pete Sampras’ all-time Grand Slam mark, and Phil Jackson winning his 10th ring—that has led to many hours of “greatest ever” debates between sports-yak lackeys on the radio and on the TV. Now [...]
November 30, 2008
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Please, Leave Detroit & The BCS Alone
By MDS in Football, Opinion, SportsI will make this short and sweet. Could the sports media please stop complaining about how every Thanksgiving airs an NFL game in Detroit and how the BCS is “unfair” or that it needs to be replaced with a playoff system? Regarding Detroit, it is a Thanksgiving tradition for the Lions to host a Thanksgiving [...]
August 18, 2008
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Science, Not Michael Phelps, Is Greatest Athlete Ever
By MDS in Opinion, Sports“Data control and IBM Science is mankind’s brother But all I see is drainin’ me On my plastic fantastic lover” — from “Plastic Fantastic Lover” by Jefferson Airplane Sure, the lyrics up above refer to a song about television but you can certainly make a case that the second line—”Science is mankind’s brother”—epitomizes sports more [...]
May 30, 2008
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An Open Letter To The National Sports Media
By MDS in Baseball, Humor, SportsTo Whom It May Concern, Hi, You do not know who I am but I am writing you, the national sports media that will write columns and/or provide televised coverage and analysis of Major League Baseball games, this letter because I am a Cubs fan. What this means is that I do not want you [...]
March 31, 2008
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2008 Final Four A Good Barometer For Sports Hypocrisy
By MDS in Opinion, SportsSo, the 2008 Final Four has been set: the four #1 seeds all won their regionals and will duke it out for the championship. On paper this seems to be the best possible scenario but the reality is that this will almost certainly be anti-climactic. It also could be the greatest and most precise demarcation [...]
January 15, 2008
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Peyton Manning & The Electric Theater
By MDS in Opinion, SportsOne of my favorite sports columnist is The Kansas City Star’s and FoxSports.com’s Jason Whitlock. Every week during the NFL season he has his “10 Truths” columns on FoxSports.com with truth no. 2 almost always being unrelated to the NFL. Here’s my attempt at an ode to Whitlock; here is Some Dude’s Ten NFL Truths… [...]