My Top 10 Favorite Underrated Play-by-Play Calls of All-Time

(Posting this again in 2018 for the purposes of 1580thefanatic.com. One of my absolute favorite columns to write in the last year – hope you’ll watch the clips and enjoy!) One thing that makes sports on radio and TV great are the play-by-play calls. As someone who dreamed of once becoming a play-by-play announcer as […]

My NBA Mock Draft – The Top-16 Picks (with projected trades)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…the best part of the NBA season is the draft. The regular season, with the exception of the occasional notable game is BORING and PREDICTABLE. The playoffs were thoroughly BORING and predictable. Last year I wrote this in my draft column about the 2017-18 season: For now […]

Friday, June 15th Quick Hitters: Arizona Sports Teams Edition

I haven’t written a Quick Hitters column in month so time to bring it back this time with an Arizona sports-only theme! -First, let me commend the Diamondbacks for turning things around quickly after it seemed like their season was going in the absolute dumpster. It also helped that Paul Goldschmidt hit .620 last week. […]

My Live Sporting Event Superlatives (Updated 2018)

NOTE: I wrote this story last year before the articles were posted on 1580TheFanatic.com. I’ve updated a few parts since then…hope you enjoy! If you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance that you’ve been to a bunch of sporting events like me. Which ones are the ones I’ll never forget? And which ones do […]

Five Things I’d Change in Sports (Updated)

NOTE: I wrote this story last year before the articles were posted on 1580TheFanatic.com. I’ve updated a few parts since then…but a year later, I couldn’t agree more with all of these suggestions! Don’t get me wrong – sports are my world…but they’re far from perfect. A few tweaks here and there might make all […]

Arizona Wildcats Football: Pre-Preseason Game-By-Game Predictions for 2018

I wrote a similar column to this one last year, when I first debuted the blog…and while I was WAY off (Arizona went 7-5, not 5-7), at least I got two things correct…that Rich Rodriguez wouldn’t be the Wildcats’ head football coach come 2018 and that “Arizona football will look a lot different in 2018.” […]

The Suns Got The 1st Pick…Now What?? My Early NBA Mock Draft Top-10

I’ve always believed that history is a good predictor of the future. In the case of the NBA Draft Lottery, in 2018, that went out the window. Apparently the “Curse of the Coin Flip” is no more. In 1969, the Bucks beat the Suns by a flip of the coin for the #1 overall pick. […]

Predicting 2018’s College GameDay Saturday Locations

My favorite time of the year – college football season is only less than four months away! Seriously…Summer can’t go fast enough this year especially with my (extreme) optimism for my Arizona Wildcats and new coach Kevin Sumlin. With college football comes the best LIVE television show – ESPN’s College GameDay. I’ve been to the […]

EC’s Kentucky Derby Selections

This Saturday is one of my favorite days of the year: the betting spectacle that is the Kentucky Derby! Now let’s be honest…the Belmont Stakes full card is better than what we’ll say on Saturday at Churchill Downs. But the unpredictability of what will happen in America’s largest and arguably most significant yearly race can’t […]

NFL Draft: Predicting the Top-15 Picks

I have never claimed to be an NFL Draft expert and very well could be completely mistaken upon submitting this mini-mock draft. But here is my (fairly uneducated) guess at the top-15 picks in this year’s draft – mock trades included.