The LIV Golf Invitational Series has caused a lot of strife since its inception. The face of the organization is Greg Norman, a guy who made few friends in his time near the top of professional golf, and the backing comes from the Saudi Public Investment Fund. The former isn’t as big a deal for people as the latter. Money, Money, Money The Saudi fund … Continue reading Is LIV Pushing Golf Forward?
Kevin Durant is a phenomenal basketball player, has been for the last decade-plus but his leadership abilities have been tested time and time again, resulting in some lackluster results. Being the number one on any team brings with it a lot of expectations and responsibility, something that not everyone can handle including Durant. Seattle/Oklahoma City It’s difficult to get up to speed in the NBA … Continue reading KD’s Leadership Leaves Us Wanting More
Major League Baseball has itself a problem. No, it’s not that the game is “dying,” it’s not. The problem is that in every other major sport, the draft is a spectacle made up of well-known athletes and in baseball, that is not the case. The MLB Draft is just as important for its sport as any other league but if you asked the average sports … Continue reading The MLB Draft Predicament
The MLB All-Star Game (ASG) is today, the WNBA ASG happened the other day and most everyones initial thought is, “who cares?” The 1933 MLB ASG was the first of its kind and was such a hit, that every major professional sports league in the U.S. has followed suit since then. Back in the first few decades it was actually something of a game, some … Continue reading All-Star Games Have Run Their Course
Tiger Woods is without a doubt the best golfer of his time and arguably the best to ever play the game. His success is completely unprecedented and to put it bluntly, we will never see it repeated again. The Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) began in 1986 in conjunction with all of the major professional golf tours in the world. Since then, there have been … Continue reading Tiger’s Dominance Will Never Be Repeated
The Big Ten conference made a huge move this past week, adding two of the most influential west coast schools to its ranks in UCLA and USC. When looking historically at the football programs and the cachet that comes with that, it is a fantastic move for the conference. However, there is a clear and obvious gap in the logic that spans almost 1,300 miles … Continue reading Bridging the B1G Divide
The idea of the NBA Play-In Tournament first came around in 2020 when the league went into a bubble in Florida in response to the pandemic. That season there was a more in-depth play-in tournament because the season was interrupted and other things but the idea did not go away once the bubble did. In 2021, the play-in tournament was back and involved the seventh … Continue reading The NBA Play-in Tournament Was A Great Idea
The Yankees have 27 World Series trophies, more than any other team in MLB, but none in the last 12 years. A number of those 27 trophies were bought by way of high dollar free agents that pushed the Yankees payroll to unbelievable heights that only that team could handle. Simply buying the best available players at whatever pricetag was the Yankee way of life … Continue reading The Yankees “Win Now” Method Hasn’t Won Much Lately
One of the most decorated franchises in all of U.S. professional sports has been on the back foot since 2012 when they were bounced in the first round of the playoffs. Riding out the lean years of a once great team, the Los Angeles Lakers went into the cellar of the NBA in a hurry. Since the 2012-23 season, the team has missed the playoffs … Continue reading The Lakers Decade of Decline
The Pittsburgh Pirates have been in full rebuild for a number of years now starting with the 2016 season where they finished below .500 and broke their three year streak of making the playoffs. They traded away all of their big names like Andrew McCutchen, Gerrit Cole, Starling Marte and many others to start over and build a winning team of young guys through the … Continue reading Unfortunate Timing For Ke’Bryan Hayes and the Pirates
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