Friday, 6/2 Quick Hitters

-Wait – you aren’t that person who thought Cleveland had a chance to beat Golden State this year, are you? If so, you do realize all of the reasons why the Warriors will dispatch of the Cavs in 5 games or less: Revenge from 2016’s Golden State choke job. Kevin Durant is now on the […]

My Top 10 Most Painful Sports Losses (Part II: 1-5)

Click here to see #s 6-10 on this list These are the losses I’ll never forget…the worst of the worst…the ones that made me literally want to stop watching sports. Oh wait, we know that was never going to happen… You’ve already read about a Cubs collapse, Arizona Basketball’s Elite Eight failures, a Packers overtime […]

My Top 10 Most Painful Sports Losses (Part I: 6-10)

Do you know that feeling when your favorite sports team loses, your stomach drops, and you feel absolutely nauseous? Unfortunately we’ve ALL been there before…some of us many times. Watching the Arizona softball late-inning meltdown(s) this weekend against Baylor in the Super Regionals made me wonder…how would I rank my most painful sports losses? It’s been […]

Friday, 5/26 Quick Hitters

A sampling of what’s on my mind this week… -How great was the Penguins-Senators Game 7 last night? As a sports fan, whether you like hockey or not, you had to appreciate the passion, intensity, and high-level skills displayed as the teams played over 85 minutes of hockey. -As if there was any doubt, Mike […]

EC’s Sports Watchability Rankings

Continuing with Monday’s theme of sports viewing, I thought I’d give my personal rankings of least favorite to favorite college and professional sports to watch on TV or in-person. For the purpose of not making this list too long, Olympic sports such as track and field, swimming, figure skating, gymnastics, etc… aren’t included. High school […]

Friday, 5/19 Quick Hitters

My weekly wrap-up of all that’s good and not-so-good in the sports world: -Here’s the winning trifecta for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes. You’re welcome in advance. 1st: (4) Always Dreaming – should win by daylight if he runs similarly to the Kentucky Derby. 2nd: (2) Cloud Computing – Been firing bullet workouts since his 3rd place in […]

Five Things I’d Change In Sports

Last night’s NBA Draft Lottery actually kept me up in the middle of the night. What a flawed system! We know it’s rigged (or strongly suspect it) so what is the NBA hiding? Why no more ping pong balls or frozen envelopes? Why does only one person get to see the results picked live? Three […]

Playing Suns GM for a day…

There’s a reason a good chunk of you reading this column, like me, play fantasy sports. We all think we can run the personnel side of a sports franchise. I mean – how hard could it really be? You sign a few players, trade some others, and voilà, you have a championship contender. And then you […]