Category: Sports
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Rasheed Wallace Does the Work
There’s a lasting image I have of Rasheed Wallace. Think back to arguably the most chaotic scene in sports history, the Malice at the Palace in November of 2004, when a drunk idiot threw a beer at Metta Sandiford-Artest (then Ron Artest), hit him in the face and instigated a brawl near the end of…
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Raising a Justice-Oriented Sports Fan
I was 12-years-old the first time I fought with my dad about sports. He grew up in rural Michigan, rose every day at 4 a.m. to head into his maintenance job for a General Motors parts supplier, and rarely missed a day until he became too physically weak to turn a wrench. He proudly boasted…
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The Most Powerful High School in America
Draymond Green is synonymous with Saginaw, but more accurately, he’s synonymous with Saginaw High. There’s a difference. Compared to most high-level athletes, Green looks rather pedestrian. But put him on a basketball court, with his combination of IQ, instincts, and barely controlled passion, and he makes perfect sense. The first time I spotted Green live…
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Kofi Kingston is the Pipebomb
One of my earliest memories as a kid was watching Superstars with my dad, uncle, and cousin, crowded around a 20-inch tube TV with rabbit ears that sat on top of a non-working dryer (that was for some reason in the kitchen) at my uncle’s perennially under construction house. More accurately, wrestling was on in…
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When You Have Nothing to Say and Still Say It
A couple of weeks ago, Duncan Smith, editor of PistonPowered (* unofficial non-Dan Feldman edition) tweeted this: If you’re “team eye test”, which best describes your number aversion? A: I don’t know where to find the numbers B: I don’t care to find them I saved it, because it reminded me of a post I’ve wanted…
Patrick Hayes 