Right Name/Wrong Name is an ADHD-fueled exercise I started a while back when I was thinking about how little sense the name Utah Jazz makes to me and how sports-angry it makes me that it’s still the name of the basketball team in Salt Lake City. I started writing way-too-long blog entries about the good… Read More Right Name/Wrong Name: Fixing the names of NFL teams
2023 NBA Draft prospect Victor Wembanyama lost a game last night, but he is winning the buzz wars. The spindly 7-foot-2 (or 3?) … center? point-pivot? wing-warrior? … led all scorers in a nationally televised exhibition between Wemby’s French squad and the G-League Ignite stars (led by another top draft prospect) and set Twitter aflame… Read More The All-Lank All-Stars: The NBA’s spindliest supermen
Late last summer, when sports apparel and memorabilia giant Fanatics came out of nowhere and swooped trading card licensing deals with NBA, NFL, and MLB, one of the biggest side stories was the fate of venerable card maker Topps. The company has produced an MLB card set (or many sets) each year uninterrupted since the… Read More The Other Shoe: Fanatics buys Topps
I was watching a video on sports collecting the other day, and something the vlogger said triggered in me a strong vision of the future of the hobby. I’ll get to that in a bit. This vlogger was talking about something called graded pop reports: A pop report is the quantity of a given card… Read More A crash is gonna come: A vision of the somewhat near future of sports card collecting
There are some team names in professional sports that don’t match their location or history very well. What if I had the power to change those names to something more appropriate? The inspiration for this exercise was thinking about how messed up it is that there’s a team called the Jazz in Utah, a team… Read More Right Name/Wrong Name: Fixing the MLB’s names for fun
I haven’t been formally diagnosed as of this writing, but I probably have ADHD. I identify with pretty much every symptom/characteristic I’ve seen, including things like “I can’t really focus on anything until I hit something I want to do, then I HYPER FOCUS.” For instance, I had this thought the other day: There has… Read More Right Name/Wrong Name: Fixing the NBA’s team names for fun
To be honest, I’ve never been much of a hardcore fan of TEAMS. I like sports: I like the athletic achievements of super talented humans. I like to be able to celebrate momentous happenings like no-hitters and perfect games, etc., no matter what team is involved. I’ve historically been a little bit of a clout… Read More Picking My Squad: A Not-That-Serious Exploration of WNBA Rooting Interests
I’m a professional wrestling fan. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve had less time to follow along and watch as obsessively as I once did, but the never-ending male soap opera still has its hooks in me. If you’re reading this and you don’t know anything about ALL IN, the record-setting independent wresting show that happened… Read More #ALLIN wrestling revelations
I’m 36. I’ve never been to a proper EDM show. I keep my finger on the pulse of what’s “hot” in music, but I rarely click with what is moving on the charts, so to speak. That said, I find EDM to be somewhat harder to keep up with. I honestly have no idea what’s… Read More Disclosure’s back
I’m not saying there will ever be another Tom Petty, but may I posit that the closest we have is one Beck Hansen? I’ve been listening to the new album, “Colors,” which is awesome. The album before that, “Morning Phase,” was totally different and also awesome (so awesome it won Best Album at the Grammys).… Read More Beck is one of the all-time greats
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