PNC Park may be major league baseball’s crown jewel, but its first decade was spent with the peasants rather than the royal family. This was a place of bad baseball and bad teams. Fans rarely came for the baseball; many times they rarely came at all. Other than the All-star Game [...]
Read More →The NBA draft is tonight. It’s not a particularly strong class, so it’s likely that there will be at least a few busts sprinkled in among the top 10 to 15 picks. And even busts must be classified. Sure, Jan Vesely may someday be thought of as a bad #6 overall pick, but [...]
Read More →Through 82 regular season games and three playoff rounds, it worked.• The Miami Heat, 11 months after forming their super-team, was very close to shoving it in the faces the doubters, and we all know there were more doubters than anyone could count.• Almost no serious basketball minds thought the Heat would get [...]
Read More →Scene: American Airlines Arena, Miami. Year: 2006. It’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals. The arena is jammed with tanned fans wearing white t-shirts – just as it will likely be tonight, in the present day, when it will be the site for Game 1 of the NBA Finals. But on this night [...]
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