Sports fans around the world were enthralled last year by the ESPN Films series: 30 for 30. ESPN brought you 30 stories over the last 30 years of sports that helped shape the sports world as we know it. They covered topics ranging from the death of Len Bias to the creation of fantasy sports, and everything [...]

Being a die-hard fan of a terrible, terrible hockey team, I must admit that I always love counting down the days until the NHL Entry Draft, as pathetic as that may sound. Unlike baseball (where nobody cares about the draft), basketball (smaller rosters means a ton of emphasis on the top guys, and then a [...]

In the great big ol’ United States of America, certain parts of the country just seem to care about one sport in particular. The southeast, for example, is much more passionate about college football than anyone living in New England. Hockey, you can assume from needing a sheet of ice to play the sport, has [...]

Recently, sports columnists barreled over each other trying to condemn the Saints “bounty” system, after it somehow leaked that coaches would pay players for injuring the other team’s stars. While some say the vast majority of NFL teams do this, most sports fans, blissfully unaware that some outside linebacker is now $10,000 richer for breaking [...]

Well the cinderella story has been complete. Somehow, someway, the 8th seeded Los Angeles Kings have won the Stanley Cup.  I’ve never been a huge follower of the Kings, but it was a great run to follow and I know a few friends who love the Kings, and who this means very much to. I [...]

Preview: A couple years back, under owner Bill Wirtz, the Blackhawks were known as one of the cheapest and worst teams in the NHL. After Wirtz’s death, and the developing of a couple young players they got in the draft, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, ending a long drought and making Chicago care about hockey again. Which, [...]