Feel how different it was from games in any other city, like Pittsburgh or Chicago. This was Los Angeles in 1953. Maybe Los Angeles wasn’t so special to merit Major League Baseball, but the Rams were still the best pro game in town—Hollywood’s team and worthy of a five-star premiere.
Do Rams fans really have to spend the days leading up to a row of three killingly-tough matchups thinking about what has already been dubbed DickersonGate?
Last week, after just three uneventful seasons, Gene Simmons’ and Paul Stanley’s pyrotechnic gridiron experiment came to an abrupt and unheralded end.
From the moment the long trucks first unloaded the blocking sleds and robotic tackling dummies and bushels of athletic tape hauled away from St. Louis, optimism reigned.
I have found that Modelo Especial goes best with my tears. You see, I am a UCLA Bruin (an actual Bruin that is, with the degree and debt to prove it), but that comes with a certain inevitability—we are going to choke.
The most interesting sporting event I’ve ever witnessed took place between a pair of football teams from a flash-in-the-pan league, full of never-was and has-been players competing in an iconic baseball stadium on the verge of…
There are no ifs, maybes or caveats allowed in American sports and now in American culture—you’re either a champion or you’re a loser: a nothing. Because, as anyone who’s played a team sport has heard countless times from some numbskull coach, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”
There’s a reason I’ve waited for the third installment of “The Nervous Light” to talk about our fantasy baseball team: we aren’t very good.
Peyton Manning won his 2nd NFL Championship, this time behind the heroics of the Denver Broncos’ defense. The league MVP Cam Newton couldn’t find his footing for the NFC Champ Panthers in a game that featured…
If you missed the 2016 college football national championship then you missed an instant classic and I feel so bad for you. Why didn’t you watch it? It was so much better than the NFL’s wildcard…