One of the more insignificant impacts of the current global pandemic is the jacked-up 2020 sports calendar. Over time, the sports fan is conditioned to associate certain times of the year with a particular sport, but the events of 2020 have shaken us loose from those norms. We’ve seen our … Read more
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us all to tap into our creativity. In an attempt to simulate real game conditions in the absence of attendees in indoor and outdoor venues, several major team sports like baseball, basketball, soccer, and hockey have resorted to using fan cutout placards to fill the … Read more
The sports phrases most commonly used by announcers aren’t the only things we learn through repetitive listening. Words we are first exposed to via spelling and vocabulary tests in school or on college board exams are often reinforced by watching sports. Though fairly common, these aren’t words we’d use in … Read more
What would a televised sporting event be without announcers? One network tried to get cute and experimented with the idea during a football game and it flopped. As viewers, some of us are tuned in to the announcers while others can tune them out completely. I belong to the former … Read more
Today I woke up early and somehow managed to take advantage of one of those cool, crisp, and cloudless September mornings to venture to a nearby park and to shoot some hoops. This marked a bit of a milestone for me, as this was the first time I’d touched a … Read more
On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz played an NBA Western Conference Quarterfinal Game Seven in Orlando, Florida. The first six games of this series featured some great individual scoring performances from two of the smaller players in the series: Denver’s 6’4″ guard Jamal Murray and … Read more
So about those NBA seeding games in Orlando which got underway on July 30th as part of the league’s restart: I was one of many folks who questioned the restart, particularly the need for so many games before getting into postseason play. Nearly all of the league’s 16 playoff qualifiers … Read more
On July 31, 2020, the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks competed in one of the so-called “seeding games” in the Orlando, Florida bubble as part of the National Basketball Association’s resumption of its 2019-20 season. The matchup featured two of the top three teams in per-game scoring average and the … Read more
Anyone who has played or watched basketball, irrespective of level, has witnessed the athletic mismatch. It can be a professional game where one team is just constructed better than the other. It can be one of those pre-conference college basketball mismatches between teams from different divisions. It can be a … Read more
So the National Basketball Association is really going to go through with this “bubble” thing. The NBA is going ahead with the continuation of its 2019-20 regular season inside a bubble in Orlando, Florida. Several players had already backed out before the training camps started, and others have since left … Read more
