Please Don't Hold Me To These NBA Awards Picks

Please Don’t Hold Me To These NBA Awards Picks

This NBA season is going to be bonkers.  At least I hope it is after the landscape shifting summer we just experienced.  The Western Conference could very well have three or four over .500 teams miss out on the playoffs.  In contrast, I believe the East may put at least three under .500 squads into… Continue reading Please Don’t Hold Me To These NBA Awards Picks

Madison Bumgarner Making MVP Case

The current state of the MLB Most Valuable Player awards started in 1931.  Since then, a pitcher has won the honor just 22 times between the two leagues.  There were significant droughts in both leagues in pitcher MVP victories, but the NL’s was much longer.  Clayton Kershaw took home the NL MVP in 2014, the… Continue reading Madison Bumgarner Making MVP Case

Macho Manny Machado

The Baltimore Orioles have come out of the gate in 2016 like gangbusters.  Predicted by many, including myself, to be in the AL East cellar, the O’s have grasped first place firmly.  While their pitching is still ironing out the kinks, the offense has been humming along smoothly.  Home runs are leaving the park regularly… Continue reading Macho Manny Machado

John Wall Grows Up

He was a kid when he entered the NBA. Five years later, he’d admit that at the tender age of 19 he was hardly ready for the rigors of being a professional athlete. Let alone the responsibilities of being an adult. But those five seasons have transformed the budding superstar from Raleigh, North Carolina. Washington… Continue reading John Wall Grows Up