Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Dear Tiger,
I see that you parted ways with caddie Steve Williams after 12 years, and unless you plan on becoming the only player on the PGA Tour to lug his own clubs around you're going to need someone on the bag.
Look no further.
I have over 7 years of excellent looping ...
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
Dear Kyle,
What's up my Ashton Kutcher-looking motherf*cker?
The other day my buddy was saying something about you playing in the Eastern Conference Finals, and I was all like "No way dawg, there's no way I wouldn't notice an Ashton Kutcher-looking motherf*cker on the basketball court."
But then I looked it up, and ...
Posted in Chicago Bulls, NBA | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 6th, 2010
For three days, I have struggled to figure out how to write this blog post. This is what I finally came up with.
It wasn't a surprise when I woke up to the texts on Friday morning. Ron Santo, the face -- or at least the soul -- of the Cubs ...
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
I could not believe my ears Monday night as the new Kid Rock song "Born Free" played while ESPN's Monday Night Countdown segued into Monday Night Football. The same song was used incessantly during TBS' postseason baseball coverage, which was apparently the network's only way of making a game called ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Celebrity has a way of dehumanizing people, which is part of the reason I have always thought it would be cool to know someone before they became famous. The old "Yeah, I remember when that guy was a regular schmoe just like me." (I've also thought it would be cool ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Sometimes I don't even know if my relatives still read this blog. But in the last week I've found evidence that someone important has possibly been doing so: ESPN Sports Guy Bill Simmons.
Last week's most read piece on ESPN.com, Simmons' column on the World Cup, ran on July 1. It ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
In one of those rare weeks where it seems like everything is going on at once in the sports world, I have determined that it is better to say a little bit about everything on my mind rather than go in-depth about any of it.
- It looks like that Boston ...
Posted in Asshole Patrol, Boston Celtics, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Cubs, Duke, Hick Flick's ramblings, I Hate New York, Kevin Garnett, Milton Bradley, NHL, Rich Rodriguez | 3 Comments »