I don’t like sports writers. I don’t like the contrived soundbites they convey, the cliched storylines they create, the false drama they so carefully cultivate. I don’t like the fact that most of them have no real qualifications, but a few years on the circuit gives them the title of ‘expert’ and, for example, allows [...]
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Get LeBron a real coach. Please.
28May07Is it just me or is Mike Brown, head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the worst coach in the entire NBA? The Sports Guy likes to complain about Doc Rivers and Mo Cheeks and Sam Mitchell (before his Coach-of-the-Year-thanks-to-Colangelo-being-a-total-pimp award) generally figure in the conversation as well, but believe me, it isn’t even close. It’s probably [...]
The very latest. The post I put up earlier about this is here. Someone should get fired for this.
There’s something seriously fishy going on. First of all, although we’ve been told categorically that Woolmer was murdered, police have been vacillating over how the crime was perpetrated, with everything from diabetes drugs to strangling to snake venom to weedkillers to strangling-with-a-towel suggested. This is despite an autopsy and several pathology reports. The police have [...]
Are you kidding me?
30Mar07This just in: Nasim Ashraf, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, has had his resignation rejected by General Musharraf. Ashraf, you recall, is completely incompetent and clueless, not to mention unqualified, and his appointment was based on the fact that he is a friend of General Musharraf. Infuriating. It would be simplistic to blame Pakistan’s [...]
Ooh, I might be able to make a series out of these :) Charley Rosen, basketball analyst and grumpy old man, explains in his latest mailbag why Rasheed Wallace isn’t a superstar on the scale of Kevin Garnett or Tim Duncan. His analysis is pithy and hard to argue with: Besides talent, there’s a huge difference between [...]
Roland Lazenby, Lakers in-the-know guy, wrote this great piece about Kobe Bryant. For those who don’t know, Kobe has just scored 50 or more points in 4 consecutive game, a feat matched only by Wilt Chamberlain (who did it in 7 straight games and averaged 50 over the season). That’s just plain ridiculous, given the [...]
Another entrant into the pantheon of incredibly stupid sports articles: Mukul Kesavan’s Subedar Major Haq and a Company of Sepoys, printed today on Cricinfo. The run up to the World Cup is obviously a quiet period for writers, which is why we get subjected to tripe like this, which tells us: In this the150th anniversary year [...]
I feel sorry for sports writers sometimes. In most professional sports, there are days when there isn’t a game on (in some, cricket being a prime example, those days comprise most of the year), and when coaches/GMs haven’t said anything stupid, and when players haven’t gotten into brawls. I hate those days, because they inevitably [...]
Make no mistake, I give the guy props for at least representing the Pakistani perspective (and in decent English, thank god). Sadly, the PCB’s inertial frame defies human understanding, so the poor guy’s columns always read the same way, the ad-hoc way the Board is run, decrying the lack of a constitution. That’s in addition [...]
Quick Hits
23Sep06There’s been some interesting stuff in the news recently: A guy traded a red paperclip for a house. This is just pure genius. A funny follow-up on what might result if one started with an iPod. Microsoft mulls offering a web-based productivity package. As pointed out on Slashdot, this certainly isn’t conclusive yet, but even so one [...]
Last weekend was busy. The UBS date for the Chase Corporate Challenge was Thursday the 6th, and then the Dunwich Dynamo was scheduled for the night falling between Saturday and Sunday, the 8th and 9th. I finished the CCC, though not in the time I had hoped for, but I turned around after reaching the [...]
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