Jim Harbaugh’s interview with ESPN talk show host Colin Cowherd last week was, to put it mildly, on the uninspiring said, so much so that The Herd had to terminate the interview. Before Harbaugh’s boring answers, clearly done to tweak the host, Cowherd said that we need to be patient with Harbaugh in Ann Arbor, […]
The Boston Red Sox’ starting pitching has been almost entirely remade with trades since last summer and the team’s worst-in-the-AL ERA stands as an indictment of GM Ben Cherington’s regime. No pitcher captures that better than Rick Porcello. Conversely, Cherington’s moves didn’t all blow up in his face—the acquisition of Eduardo Rodriguez has the potential […]
The race for the American League MVP seems to have more candidates than the race for the Republican presidential nomination. There are players having great years, but whose teams are, as of now, out of the playoffs. The players from the first-place teams don’t quite seem MVP-level. There are good candidates at starting pitcher. Here’s […]
The Baltimore Orioles are gaining steam in the crowded AL East race and a big reason is the re-emergence of third baseman Manny Machado is one of the game’s brightest young stars and its best young third baseman. Machado came to the major leagues in the latter part of the 2012 season. At the age […]
The NBA draft is tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn (7 PM ET, ESPN) and for those of us who follow Wisconsin basketball, there’s never been a draft with more intrigue. Badger stalwarts Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker are expected to be first-round picks and you can reasonably debate which one should go higher. […]
I like Pitt football. They’re not the team I live and die with (that’s Wisconsin) or a team that’s strongly on my radar (like Notre Dame or the Big Ten in general), but I lived in the Steel City for nine good years (1999-2007) and came to enjoy rooting for the Panther program. That hasn’t […]
Pablo Sandoval is at the heart of the current problems with the Boston Red Sox. Not because the Panda went on Instagram a couple nights ago during a game and drew a one-game suspension for it. Not even for his performance on the field. No, Pablo Sandoval is a problem because of what his presence […]
The NBA Finals came to an end last night. As the Golden State Warriors locked up their first championship in forty years, I was instead watching a last-place baseball team in action. A family outing to Miller Park for a Brewers-Royals game was on the agenda. So as luck would have it, the clinching game […]
There were three moment that stand out in the Chicago Blackhawks’ 2-0 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning that secured Chicago’s third Stanley Cup in sixth years. *In the second period of a scoreless game, Tampa Bay star Steven Stamkos had a breakaway against Corey Crawford. Stamkos seemed to do most everything right, juking with […]
Game 5 of the NBA Finals was the best one of the series, providing us with both a close game most of the way and one where both teams and both stars played well. With five minutes to go this was still a one-point game, until Golden State finally found a burst and was able […]
Modern technology let me down in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Last night, a day and a half long battle with back spasms had me drained, so I just set the DVR to record the Chicago-Tampa Bay game and figured I’d watch this morning before my usual Sunday routine of church and doing […]
After spending the first three games wildly jacking up threes and mostly missing, the Golden State Warriors came back last night in Game 4 with a more comprehensive team approach that looked a little more like actual basketball, and the results spoke for themselves—a 103-82 win that tie up the NBA Finals 2-2 and regained […]
