As evidenced by my relative lack of activity here, November didn’t turn out to be as placid as I would have liked. I make my living in baseball, and it seems to never really shut down at this point between… Continue Reading
The night Prayer for a Perfect Season premiered on HBO, I sat in a banquet hall watching it with the people who had the most personally invested in it. The documentary was moving, but as it portrayed the fading vestiges… Continue Reading
For lack of a better place to put them, just picks this week — I’ve been exceedingly busy with Mike Krzyzewski’s record-breaking 903rd win, which I wrote up for Dime. I’ll probably resume with some random thoughts early next week.… Continue Reading
Halloween/Watch The Throne/recovering from baseball … it all added up to me missing a week of this. It was a pretty lousy week to miss NFL pick-wise, as I went 10-4 in my weekly league. As a Dolphins fan that… Continue Reading
I can’t remember exactly when, but there was a point on Tuesday night while watching Jay-Z and Kanye West perform in Baltimore when I turned to my fiancée and said, “I don’t know if I’ve ever felt as cool as… Continue Reading
I haven’t had a ton of time to write lately because of the World Series, and some stuff I’ve done for Dime Magazine with Kyrie Irving and Penny Hardaway. Expect some more next week, I have a couple of ideas… Continue Reading
Some random thoughts, starting with a series finale I just watched five months after it happened. Working nights, I pretty much only watch television with DVR, and there are two types of shows for me: the ones I can watch… Continue Reading
Charles Oakley said a lot of provocative things in his one-hour media session at K1X on Saturday, most of which have already been printed elsewhere. (I’m sure you’ve already heard his take on the current-day Knicks, Amar’e Stoudemire and Isiah… Continue Reading
The narrative after Charles Oakley’s tour de force at the K1X store in Soho on Saturday was that he’s a loose cannon, not afraid to speak his mind because, well, who messes with Oak? I was there for Dime Magazine,… Continue Reading
A couple of basketball lockout notes this week. So yeah, I’m just like everyone else. I make a living in baseball, and though I’m not crazy about everything the sport does, the power brokers behind the game have been able… Continue Reading