A good sense of how amazing the manner in which Manchester City clinched the Premier League title on Sunday is in the number of times (four) I said something along the lines of “This is over” in my GChat conversation with R&GAD writer Jose Mena while watching their game against QPR. I probably should have...
While there have been some big games this season, for sheer soccer action, no day can compare to the last day of the Premier League season, with all 10 games kicking off at the same time. While there may not be any twists like the final day of the 2007-08 season, where Danny Murphy scored...
Well, all I can say is I’m glad that none of the half-written columns I crafted in the past two months made it to completion. They would have told of Manchester United’s stunning run, defying the odds to overtake Manchester City through 11 wins and 1 draw in 12 Premier League games from January 14...
There’s a little bit of everything for sports fans this weekend, no matter what sport you follow. The first round of the NBA playoffs starts this Saturday. The second round of the NHL playoffs also begins later this week. Major League Baseball has a full slate of games this weekend including matchups between all four...
This is a much shorter version of my normal EPL round-up. I would have waited until after next week’s games, but enough significant things happened this week that I had to weigh in. - The football gods were clearly displeased with Jonny Evans being proclaimed the league’s best active defender by Sir Alex Ferguson, as...
“It’s still early.” ”It’s only April.” “If this happened in August no one would be talking about it.” “It’s too small a sample.” “Small sample sizes” “Small sample sizes.” If you’re a baseball fan, you’ve been told a thousand times not to over-react to the first three weeks of the season. Last year the Red...
As I have discussed before, soccer’s governing bodies often get a bad rap, whether for bureaucratic nonsense or outright corruption. There are surely many soccer fans who see their own country’s soccer federation as just a way for corporate fat-cats to enrich themselves on the back of the people’s passion for the game England’s Football...
Tonight, the quest for the Stanley Cup begins in earnest with an opening round matchup between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers at 7:30pm. We won’t have a winner until June, but that’s not a reason to ignore the opening round. Last year the 8th seeded Chicago Blackhawks took the Canucks to a game seven...
R&GAD’s Post Funky Mortem (a reference to an infamous blog of Gavin’s) is a weekly NFL recap in which our writers pose and answer questions relating to the previous week’s games and the NFL in general. This week, PFM makes a surprise reappearance to cover some offseason storylines. Gavin, Faust, and Ryan discuss offseason quarterback...
In celebration of Major League Baseball’s opening day,[1] I’ve asked the writers at this site for their predictions about the upcoming baseball season. Here are their responses: Travis Faust Jose Mena Ryan Dahn Gavin Byrnes Kunle Demuren Ethan Faust AL East Yankees Yankees Yankees Rays Red Sox Rays AL Central Tigers Tigers Tigers Tigers Tigers...
