Category: Sports

So I was reading Michael Lombardi’s column over at the National Football Post and I came across this gem:

Now, I am not a homophobe, but I found it enormously amusing that a writer …

Let’s say you’re trying to win an Olympic swimming event. Let’s say it’s the 100 meter freestyle. And let’s say your main opponent is the world record holder.

Not hard enough? Let’s give him a head start.

That’s essentially …

Via Bill Simmons, here’s the last lap of the 10,000 meters run at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics:

American Billy Mills made up about 15 meters in the last 50, …

So I was reading some reactions to the Superbowl over at Football Outsiders, and it occurred to me why I always rooted against Peyton Manning: because he’s Ivan Drago.

(Drago, of course, was Rocky’s opponent in Rocky IV (The Undiscovered …

Colts 38, Patriots 34 - HOLY CRAP what a great game that was! That’s the best AFC Championship I’ve seen since the Steelers beat the Patriots ten years ago, a game that also came down to the last minute …