Blogging for Meatballs

There’s nothing like a $4 hotdog, or sweating your “you know what” off on a hot Summer day, or sitting in one spot on a metal bleacher watching a grueling 2 – 1 shootout over the span of 3 hours…there’s nothing like baseball. It is America’s pastime, you know. In all seriousness though, baseball [...] Continue Reading…

You don’t have to watch the news for more than fifteen minutes to hear the word “democracy” spoken. “Iraq is a young democracy,” “America is the world’s greatest democracy,” “America needs to unite with other democracies against radical Islam,” etc., etc., etc.. Now, I understand that using the word “democracy” underlines the simple distinction [...] Continue Reading…

“Welcome to the 2007 NBA Finals where it will be Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers versus Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs.” That is how you’ll hear ABC announce the games when they start here in a few days (that announcement will of course be followed by the “Right Now” diddy by [...] Continue Reading…

You’ll often hear people say things like, “Nah, I don’t watch the NBA; it’s boring,” or “college basketball is real basketball; it’s basketball in its purest form,” or “the NBA is just a bunch of big guys with no skill, a bunch of thugs, at least in college they can shoot,” and on and [...] Continue Reading…

As a lifelong, diehard Pistons fan, this current group, (as good as they’ve been for the past five years) at times, drives me absolutely crazy. They have a case of “flip the switch” mentality, and judging by their complete annihilation last night at home versus Chicago, I’d say it has reached epidemic proportions. Believing [...] Continue Reading…

The BCS? How about the BSCS? I don’t have to translate that for you, do I? After last night’s debacle, I think it’s pretty clear. “Well, the BCS…err, BSCS isn’t a perfect system; it has some flaws,” its proponents might say. Oh really? Like what? I’ll tell you the one major flaw; it’s called [...] Continue Reading…

While monitoring the USA vs. Ghana game today (while at work) via the Internet (God bless it, couldn’t imagine work without it), I was again reminded of the dynamics of the European/American relationship. It boils down to this: they don’t like us, and we don’t care. Our collective attitudes about soccer seem to follow [...] Continue Reading…