The gravest insult that can be levied against any sports fan is to accuse them of “jumping on the bandwagon” – the act of becoming a vocal supporter of a team while they are in the midst of a successful run.
In Boston these fans are known as “pink hats” – an inherently sexist term that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sports'
In Defense of Casual Fandom
February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Sports
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Totally True News Podcast – 1/31/12
February 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Podcast, Sports
Here’s the first installment of my new weekly segment on the Steve Gorman Sports radio show* called “Totally True News”. Each week I’ll take you behind the scenes of some of the biggest stories of the week and tell you what’s really going on. This week I blow the lid off the NFL and expose [...]
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Handicapping the 2012 NFL Playoffs
January 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Humor, Sports
The so-called experts will tell you that picking football games comes down to understanding schemes and match-ups. They’ll break down the magical “coach’s film” to identify tendencies and weaknesses. Then they’ll make their picks and still get more than half of them wrong.
I, on the other hand, am one of the last honest prognosticators in [...]
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Hubway Bicycles: Urban Transportation Miracle or the Devil’s Plaything?
September 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Boston, Humor, Sports
Recently I had my first opportunity to test out the new Hubway bicycle rental system and answer the question that’s been on everybody’s mind: are these bikes an urban transportation miracle or the devil’s playthings?
For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, bicycles are wheeled transportation devices that are manually powered by [...]
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The State of the Professional Sports Union
January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Humor, Podcast, Sports
Friends, Americans, fellow podcasters, it is with great pride and humilty – let’s call it primility – that I deliver the 2011 state of the professional sports union address.
The state of professional sports in America is strong….ly concerning.
Our greatest sport, American football, is under the dual threat of head injuries and a potential lock-out. Even [...]
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2010 World Cup Handicapping for the Non-Football Fan
June 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Humor, Sports
Introducing…the World Cup
Every four years, like clockwork, the non-U.S. portion of the world re-commences their long-standing crusade to teach Americans about football, allegedly the world’s most popular sport. So desperate are our Euro-African-Asians friends to convince us of football’s greatness that they created an international tournament called the World Cup with the sole [...]
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The Red Sox Fan’s Guide to Delivering Snappy Responses to Yankees Fans if (when) the Yankees win the World Series
November 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Humor, Sports
If you’re like me, you grew up in the 1970s idolizing Pete Rose and rooting for the Reds, then moved to Boston when you were 15 and adopted the Red Sox as your team. In the subsequent 20-something years your love for the Sox has only deepened but your problem is the obnoxious Yankee fan [...]
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The NHL-NASCAR Merger: Not As Crazy As You Might Think
October 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Humor, Sports
As a sports expert of sorts (and by “of sorts” I mean “not at all”) I often find myself thinking long and hard about the future of two professional sports leagues that I care little about: the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR).
(For the record, my order of [...]
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The Boston Sports Fan’s Guide to Choosing a Jersey
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Humor, Sports
While traditionally reserved for children and actual pro athletes, we’ve watched with some interest over the last few years as the sports jersey has assumed an unanticipated level of acceptability in American adult wardrobes from coast to coast. Dare we suggest that the sports jersey has become somewhat fashionable?
In just two short weeks we’ll hit [...]
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Help Make Competitive Sleeping an Olympic Event!
September 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Humor, Sports
If you’re like me, one of your biggest regrets in life is that you never made it as an Olympic athlete. And even though you stink at sports, find the Olympics kind of boring and are afraid of angry old Romanian men, nothing can stop the dream of standing on the ceremonial riser, collecting a [...]
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