by Kent Sterling Over the past your years, Twitter has become the way many Americans share and receive their news. It has turned millions into pundits, and pundits into brands. It also serves as a free and easy way to share a message for teams battling for the eyes, ears, and wallets of fans. For […]
by Kent Sterling There aren’t a lot of arguments in this house. I was trained in arguing by some of the best at the art during holiday dinners when I was a child, and verbal duels takes me back to the darkness of the Nixon vs. Roosevelt donnybrooks between Dad and my Mom’s mom. Those […]
by Kent Sterling As the game remained close well into the second half, it seemed the Miami Heat were waiting for the moment to unleash the hounds of war and assert their will. The Spurs fought with pride, but like the Spartans at Thermopylae, the opposing horde was too much to take on when the […]
by Kent Sterling NBA players in Toronto are harmless. No one pays any attention, even if they say stupid things. Forgive me if I missed how self-impressed Chris Bosh was up in the hinterlands of the NBA Now that he has moved to Miami where microphones and cameras are everywhere, Bosh’s inane chatter is impossible […]
by Kent Sterling Not sure who I feel worse for today – New England Patriots tight end Michael Hoomanawanui or brand new U.S. Ambassador to Libya Deborah Jones. With Patriots tight ends dropping like the recently laid off ESPN statistical gurus, Hoomanawanui is either falling up the depth chart toward a position of significance, or […]
by Kent Sterling The Spurs chances to win a fifth World Championship were at 98.6% with :28 seconds left in Game Six. Now, there are a lot of people saying the odds are now reversed in the Heat’s favor. A lot of good things have to happen for the Spurs to win tonight, and run […]
by Kent Sterling Just finished an online episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” with Jerry Seinfeld, and at the very end, Jerry tells a one line story about marriage that he finds a perfect representation of a happy marriage. The wife says, “I thought it was a wonderful joke, and I’m sure everyone else […]
by Kent Sterling No one really knows how many people are watching TV or listening to the radio. The ratings methodologies are flawed as hell, and are only accurate over an extended period of time. With Twitter, there is no doubt about the accuracy, so when I started doing a little research on a piece […]
by Kent Sterling My whole life I have tried to learn everything relevant about the games I would watch, so watching a game where I have a rooting interest but no knowledge whatsoever is a joy. Not only do I know nothing about the team Indiana plays tonight in an elimination game of the College […]
by Kent Sterling Every professional athlete has a moment when he realizes he can’t do what he once did – that the physical gifts that once seemed so much a part of his DNA have eroded to the point where he is now a liability to the team that once counted on his skills. That […]
