It wasn’t supposed to end that way. No, it was supposed to be the single greatest moment in sports history: a half-court runner for the National Championship — the most improbable & spectacular ending to a most improbable & spectacular game. It had a chance, alright. It was right there. Right. There. And right on line [...]

I don’t often watch hockey. But when I do, I obviously prefer to watch bears playing it to the death. However, when that’s not available for whatever reason, I prefer watching Team USA beat an uppity global powerhouse for a historically significant win. It was riveting theater, frankly. And when the Yanks batted that final touchdown into the net area to seal [...]

Because Indianapolis is currently in a crazed lather over Dwight Freeney’s (alleged) 3rd-degree ankle sprain, I thought I could shed some much needed light on the situation. Some truth. Not because I know Freeney, really. Not because I know the Colts doctors. But rather because I know the injury.

The night this decade began, I was 23 and far from home and failing my first year of law school. I was dead broke and had a girlfriend. She, meanwhile, had about 6,000 friends — all of whom I was awkwardly meeting for the first time in a crowded bar in Buckhead. Meeting new people under such conditions [...]

Remember when Buzz Aldrin & Neil Armstrong didn’t land on the moon in July of 1969? Remember when they were THISCLOSE to touching down on the lunar surface, but Flight Command called it off at the very last moment? Remember the exchange that took place? “Too risky,” Flight Command cautioned the astronauts. “We’ve been thinking it over [...]

Bill Polian: Colts fans, for the last time, you will heed my wisdom. We will rest the starters from here on out. 16-and-0 means nothing if Peyton breaks his back. You people are ill-equipped for these type of decisions, and you are dumb. Jim Nabors: But not scared. Polian: Excuse me? Nabors: No, I don’t think [...]

As you were.