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I’ve made my peace with certain things during the coronavirus shutdown. The Lakers are finally good again, but it’s very possible that the NBA won’t be able to resume the season. The Dodgers traded for Mookie Betts, and yet there’s a decent chance that he will never...
NFL Off-Season; Heading Into The 2020 Draft
I have a mental snapshot that I refer to often these days. It’s Feb. 2, 2020 and the Super Bowl is just about to kick off. I’m sitting on my easy chair, I have a cold drink in one hand and a big smile on my face. I’m in my element. Despite not having a real rooting...
Super Bowl 54: San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs
It’s always a special occasion when the Super Bowl returns to Miami. Like a certain spaceport in “Star Wars,” South Florida is the perfect hive of scum and villainy, wrapped up in a humid bow. With alligators. It’s glorious. And yet, a gloom has hung over the area,...
Where the Super Bowl will be won and lost
The Super Bowl this year plays out on two theatres. On one hand -- the hand that I think everyone wants to watch -- a star-studded match up between Patrick Mahomes and Robert Saleh’s ridiculously good 49ers defense. On the other, Jimmy Garoppolo and Kyle Shanahan’s...
2019 NFL: Likes and Dislikes
Well, here we are. Is there anything worse than the week in between the championship games and Super Bowl Sunday. It’s like being forced to spend a week in purgatory, where the only football you see is either debated by talking heads or done poorly during the annual...
2019 NFL: AFC & NFC Championship Sunday
Most people think of Super Bowl Sunday as the official end to the football season. And technically, they might be correct, but most people who live and breathe this sport feel differently. The last true day of football is coming this weekend. Championship Sunday. The...
Previewing The NFL Divisional Round
Have you noticed? It’s surreal. The air seems cleaner. Food tastes better. The most foul bottle of water (cough, Dasani) rolls off your tongue like ambrosia. I just want to wrap myself in this feeling and slowly fall into a deep sleep and eventually die. That’s how...
2019 NFL: Week 15
Not all playoff teams are created equal. Some of them have a realistic shot at the Lombardi Trophy. Others are just happy to be there. Others are in the NFC East and are so awful it’s an embarrassment they’re even in the postseason. And with the NFL regular season...