Entries Tagged as 'Sports Illustrated'

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

What a Weird Wednesday that Was

Leave it up to the day with the crazy spelling (no one pronounces the ‘d’ before the ‘n’ so it shouldn’t be spelled that way!) to provide some real craziness in the world of sports. Here’s a rundown of the things that blew my mind yesterday.

Roberto Alomar denied entry into baseball HOF
This is the biggest […]

Friday, September 18th, 2009

An NFL Weekend - Pyle of List style

As a father, I always wanted to teach my children the finer points of professional football, but when I had 2 girls many doubted me.  Well, my daughters might not be NFL geniuses, but my 5 year old has agreed to pick NFL games with me for the season…
 So here you are Courtenay and I […]

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

A Sportswriter I Actually Like

Down here, in the parents’ basements that is the blogosphere, we despise sportswriters. No matter how long you’ve been around, either a long time or a short time, someone is going to make fun of you. Heck, there have been entire sites devoted to how bad some are (granted, the namesake was an announcer, but […]

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Thermo-Thursday

Where are all the Christmas movies on TV?  I’ve yet to see “A Charlie Brown Christmas” or “It’s a Wonderful Life” and we’re half way through the December push.  If I have to resort to pulling out my Christmas movie collection on VHS I’m going to be upset.
Well, I’ve already thrown Charlie Brown in the […]

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

We Lost A Good One Yesterday

I grew up in a baseball house. My family has had season tickets for the Angels since the stadium opened, and everyone is an Angels diehard (well, except me and my cousin, the outcast Dodger fans). That’s why, even though my dad played college football, it was always baseball on our TV. Baseball was the […]

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Peter King Is Racist

Ah, nothing like an old white football writer talking about the NBA. I’m sure him and his friends have hilariously racist names for the league, and no, I’m not talking about the National Booger-Eaters Association (although that is quite the burn). Here is a statement from Peter’s weekly Monday Morning QB article over at […]

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Interview with SI’s Arash Markazi

Today we bring you an interview with a young writer from the stable at Sports Illustrated. Arash Markazi is a 2004 graduate of the the Print Journalism program at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC. Prior to working for SI, he wrote for the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles […]