Dear Pittsburgh and Syracuse fans (and people who root for Notre Dame in sports other than football),
Welcome, my new friends, to the Atlantic Coast Conference! I’m sure, right now, everything feels strange and different, and you’re not quite sure how you fit in to this new collegiate landscape. It’s a little bit like that first day of high school, only without getting stuffed into a trash can or laughed at for having innumerable pimples on your face. (More …)
On the most American of days, I ask you this: What’s more American than college football and second chances?
Anything? Nope. Whatever you come up with is not nearly as American as those two things. You can try as hard as you want to think of a challenger to that pair and you’ll fall comically short.
OK, maybe Hulk Hogan riding a bald eagle while headbutting terrorists (or the guy who designs Oregon’s uniforms) would be just as American.
That being said, there are lots of college football programs and coaches in need of a second chance. Last week Oregon got its second chance from the NCAA in a very unsatisfying way. Almost everyone – even Ducks fans – felt that the NCAA gave Oregon a sweetheart deal in the face of the violations and potential punishments dancing in everyone’s heads.
… And if you ask a Penn State fan, any punishment levied by the NCAA from here until the end of time will be too light.
With that in mind, “Oh Buck, He Crushed it!” deputy editor Zach Evans and I have concocted a way that the NCAA can dole out punishments and slaps on the wrist to renegade programs while making it much more television-friendly.
“RetrOh No!” is a series of reviews of games which have long outlived their usefulness and shelf lives and were likely awful when they were fresh and new. Not to be confused with the more positive “RetrOh Yes!” that praises games for still being awesome years later.
Video gaming has given me some awesome experiences and has provided me with countless hours of feelings resemblant to or including fun. Every so often, I’d stumble upon a game that you couldn’t judge by its cover. Through some miracle, the game ended up being a complete blast despite looking pretty shoddy by appearance.
For example, the Game Boy title “Crystal Quest” was a Christmas present that I possibly scoffed at upon unwrapping it before playing it and discovering that it’s not my cup of tea (read: sports game), but it was still a very effective way to nuke a freshly recharged set of NiCad batteries in the clunky oafish portable device. (Lesson learned: I was an unappreciative jerk as a 12-year-old)
Review: V/H/S/2 (2013) available OnDemand
It feels weird calling V/H/S/2 a masterpiece; the low-budget horror anthology doesn’t seem all that concerned with being one. The filmmakers are having too much fun with their audience to worry about that.
It’s early-June and the Pittsburgh Pirates are experiencing a solid wave of early-season success and fan optimism. Yet, there’s still the sinking feeling of more collapses and another year of sub-.500 baseball dancing about in most heads. That means that there is still a need for hope.
Say hello to Gerrit Cole.
Had Cole been a Phillie, fans would be calling for the Phillies to trade him for a proven hitter.
It was so great was it seeing Cole, Cutch, Alvarez and Walker, all homegrown first round picks all out there together.
Here are things that you likely don’t know about this year’s Stanley Cup Finals, one featuring TWO (yes, that’s 2x the awesome) “Original Six” franchises:
As the repurposing of “Oh Buck, He Crushed It” rages on, the efforts of Phil Petrunak and myself to turn this into an NBA-only blog are merely in your head. That being typed, here’s another post about the NBA postseason … Phil will come in later with a post about the Miami Heat. I think.
– SC
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I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I’m curious to see how officiating impacts this second-round stretch of the NBA playoffs.
The next few days could be our first playoff test cases for just how badly David Stern’s office wants to see – or better yet avoid – certain finals matchups … If you believe in that sort of thing.
Thanks to the new alignment in Major League baseball – the one that has 15 teams in every league and ensures that NL Central teams won’t play 207 games out of 162 within the division – baseball fans have at least one interleague series going on with every matchup rotation.
Tuesday marked the first time that the Pittsburgh Pirates embarked in this crazy new world as they dropped the Seattle Mariners 4-1. Fans attended just about anything else in droves. In the defense of the Pirates and Mariners, Tuesday night’s weather was pretty iffy and the Penguins were off underachieving against the New York Islanders. The paid attendance was listed at 12,973, the visible attendance might have been in the lower end of four figures.
I’m an advocate of interleague play. There, I said it. (More …)
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