Back when Mickey and I were doing our own thang at the Sports Brethren, we would double-team a weekly post about every Carolina Panthers game. We might not see eye-to-eye on everything, but we always brung the heat and the passion in our weekly chronicles of the NFL’s greatest team. Here at the Cube, we’re [...]
The Calm Before the Storm
On ESPN2 Baron Davis is watching Roger Federer toy with some Amadeusian Mozart looking guy in the US Open and dressed like a flasher, and I’m watching it. There’s an actual meaningful baseball game on ESPN; a game I wouldn’t care much about had I not just spent a long weekend in Florida, hanging out [...]
NFL Oh-Nine Previews: AFC & NFC West
Back when Mickey and I were doing our own thang at the Sports Brethren, we would double-team a weekly post about every Carolina Panthers game. We might not see eye-to-eye on everything, but we always brung the heat and the passion in our weekly chronicles of the NFL’s greatest team. Here at the Cube, we’re [...]
Living the Euro Life
This may end up being the first part of a multi-part piece, but it just as well may not, so we’ll see what happens. August. August in America is a sticky wicket in both literal and figurative words. It’s balls hot regardless of where you are, but with the humidity and short tempers comes football [...]
One More Before I Slip Away
In two days I’ll be flying back east for a week of reading, eating and sleeping on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It’s my first real vacation in quite some time, as this time last year was spent flying to the OBX, buying Mickey’s Accord, and driving it back across the country. It was [...]
Smokey’s Potpourri
The suspenders are on. Let’s King Thing this bitch up. -Over the past few years there’s been an influx of Bills fans in my social stratosphere. These are a curious lot; they tend to be realists and pessimists. They’ve mastered the art of the shrug and eye roll, which is why they’re the perfect fans [...]
Mile Markers
The American world of baseball descended upon the Gateway to the West this week. There was carousing and merriment. There were displays of power, of cunning. And in the end, as always, the AL defeated the National League. Bringing us these events employed a small army of analysts, interviewers, and announcers, and yet, it was [...]
Spanning the Spectrum
There’s a perfectly logical reason why Sarah Palin would quit at the beginning of a holiday. You dump news you want no one to care about on the Friday before a long weekend. I know I certainly didn’t. While the governor of the largest state in the US was quitting, I was in the middle [...]
Graphically Speaking
It’s been three days since the US Soccer team lost to Brazil 3-2 in the Confederation Cup finals, and the sports landscape seems to have reverted back to normal. The game added a bit of spice to an otherwise mundane Sunday, but as the end of the game neared Twitter lit up with an out [...]
Smokey’s Potpourri
Salutations, internet. I planned on doing this big ol’ piece comparing my rise through the ranks of life and Hollywood with that of Adam Morrison, but life throws a wikid curveball sometimes and you, dear reader, get to be the lucky recipient of my mind drivel. Without further ado, here be a potpourri of the [...]
