With tapes of his Jeremiah Wright being played ad-nauseum on every news channel, Barack Obama received his campaign’s first 3 AM call. He responded by giving "the speech": a genuine, brilliant, and anything-but-conventional political call for Americans to honestly address the subject of race. CNN pundit Jim Wallis probably summed it up when he stated: "…before Barack [...]
A few days ago I was dismayed at how the Jeremiah Wright tapes might affect Barack Obama’s candidacy. Today I am glad that it did. The tapes forced Obama away from running purely as "race neutral" candidate, and into making a pivotal campaign decision. 1) Adhere to the Politics 101 handbook and exile his pastor to Siberia [...]
“The strategy is to continue to chaos in this party. Look, there is a reason for this. Our side is not going to do this. Obama needs to be bloodied up. Look, half the country already hates Hillary. That is good. But nobody hates Obama yet. Hillary is going to be the [...]
After Samuel Peter knocked out Oleg Maskaev in the 6th round last night, he emphatically shouted into Max Kellerman’s microphone: "Who’s next?"…"Who’s Next?"… The question is a very important one… not just for Peter, but for the future of heavyweight boxing. Unless you are a serious fan, they say that boxing’s popularity in America follows [...]
Did you catch today’s gallup poll on steroids? It showed 62% of baseball fans believe that Roger Clemens should enter the Hall of Fame, but only 46% believe Barry Bonds should. Hmmmm. The poll also showed 55% of fans think players linked in the Mitchell Report for using performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) should NOT be punished, but only 37% felt that way [...]
Why is it that everytime I think of Jamal Crawford I get childhood pop culture flashbacks? I’ve always felt like I missed out growing up as a teen in the 1980′s. Besides the glaring exceptions of hip-hop’s emergence, the NBA, and Platoon, the 1980′s seem like pop culture’s most forgettable decade in terms of music, movies, and other creative cultural [...]
"There’s no question. I’m having a moment. I’m having one those I’m-in-a-movie, larger-than-life moments that can happen only in New Orleans." – Bill Simmons in yesterday’s column "…Then Katrina happened…. Imagine me looking around and thinking about how egregiously I underestimated the city’s rebuilding effort, and thinking to myself that New Orleans might make [...]
The left jab. If used correctly, it is still the most effective punch in boxing. Larry Holmes career was built off of it. Lennox Lewis protected his weak chin with it. Ali made Frazier eat 5-10 of them as the price of admission to throw his left hook. And it was the left jab that middleweight Kelly Pavlik rode [...]
"It’s time to end the NBA dunk contest."…" It ain’t what it used to be."…"We’ve seen it all before." …Sound familiar. Welcome to the 2008 dunk contest — the best that I can remember since MJ and Dominique were going mano-a-mano. This one was all about creativity. Dwight Howard, aka Superman, stole the show with his [...]
No sports today… just bloggin’ on a Saturday about movies, critics, and my own sanity. … This was the week where I try and catch up on the Oscar buzz. I finally saw "No Country for Old Men". I thought that it was simply a decent movie, but nothing worth the standard salivation [...]
