May 21, 2013

The early bird spring predictions are already starting to come through in the college football blogging and media world. One of the biggest stories early on is the expectation that Urban Meyer and the Big Ten’s Ohio State Buckeyes can dethrone the Alabama Crimson Tide and the SEC to take the 2014 National Championship. ESPN’s Mark Schlabach added fuel to the...

May 20, 2013

After the Thunder’s disappointing second series loss against the Memphis Grizzlies, the team’s superstar Kevin Durant said ‘I don’t have to be Kobe Bryant’. The statement was an allusion to Bryant’s 2011 comments when he suggested that a disappointing season had been a wasted year in his life. Durant was trying to state that playing basketball and being a...

May 19, 2013

In an all action fight fought at a catch weight of 141 pounds the WBC junior welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse stopped the IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson within 3 rounds. The much anticipated fight certainly delivered, after a cagey opening round, Matthysse upped his work rate in the second landing a lead right hand that appeared to hurt...

May 19, 2013

Top-ranked Serena Williams has yet to be defeated. This time her tour stopped in Rome for the Italian Open. In the finals match, Williams faced off against third-ranked Victoria Azarenka. Williams proved a couple things: 1) that she keeps getting better, 2) that she is one heck of a tennis player. Williams dominated the match, winning in straight sets 6-1, 6-3...

May 19, 2013

It all came as a bit of a shock last week first we had the news that Sir Alex Ferguson was calling it a day after 26 years at Manchester United, and then David Beckham said that he would be retiring also after just having won the French league title with Paris Saint-Germain. While I do not think that Beckham will ever be remembered as a footballer in the same...