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Football fans: its time to forget about Portugal, there’s a new Champ in town.

The time has come for the most intense and entertaining annual 2 months in professional sports – the NBA playoffs. This year we have around 10 teams who could legitimately end up in the NBA finals! Drama is higher than its even been, hype is not something that we will need TNT and ESPN to fabricate, and its set to be the most entertaining Playoffs in recent memory. Let’s have a look at what’s on the agenda shall we?!

Today I will list the most common fallacies that people make when talking, writing, and thinking about the MVP race.

The Kobe debate today revolves not around his personality and moral ethics, but his ability on the court. Is Kobe Bryant really worth it?

The NBA season is right around the corner and every sports fan with a hint of basketball in their blood is eager for the season to finally get underway. Over the past couple months we ‘witnessed’ a very dull NBA final, we had some big trades that went through and some that didn’t, we’ve had scandals, many comeback considerations, and much much more. However all of that will clear the way on Wednesday night for the season openers and real basketball headlines

The highly anticipated game between the Cavaliers and the Magic in Shanghai was due to start at 8pm in Qizhong Arena. I didn’t have a ticket to the game, but this was China in the end so I thought the black market was as or even more reliable than any ticketing agency that I would have gone to. As expected, scalpers were in the hundreds (I kid you not), and after being ambushed by a large group of them 100 meters from the arena, I finally decided to buy a ticket.

With the internet, increased media coverage, blogs and other new age trends towards the ultra-wired world we live in today – being a sports fan has changed tremendously over recent years. Sports fans back in the day were regarded as tech geeks do today, consistently awing randomers with their borderline obsessive/pathetic knowledge of their respective [...]

It’s been a while since I have had the will to write another article. You see, the reason for this is that there’s been this topic on my mind I’ve been stuck on, and I feel unable to move past it. Usually my articles are strange, comical, and sometimes absurd– but right now, I feel [...]

Regular Season, the excitment is gone

So the NBA schedule has just been released for the upcoming 2007-2008 season. Couple of quick highlights for me was: Chicago being one of the most nationally broadcast teams (does the League know about some Kobe trade plans we’re not aware of?), Portland-Seattle Christmas Matchup (am I the only one [...]

Ever since Michael Jordan’s third retirement, League Commissioner David Stern has been faced with increasing pressure as fan interest on domestic soil has been consistently on the fall. Amidst a lack of a true heir to MJ, criminal charges, hip-hop culture, domestic violence, brawls, and now a reffing scandal - natural growth for the sport [...]