Category: Columnists

It’s been a combination of the worst for the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Football League (NFL) over the past few weeks. After surveillance video captured Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice in a very uncomfortable situation dragging his fiancée across an elevator floor prior to his arrest at an Atlantic City casino, […]

Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant was so dominant during the first half of the season that many basketball pundits were ready to name him this year’s NBA MVP. The Prince Georges County, Md. native averages a league-high 31 points and went on an unprecedented 12-game streak during January in which he scored at least […]

Fresh off their impressive showing from NBA All-Star Weekend’s opening two days, John Wall and Bradley Beal have firmly established themselves as players to watch going forward as the basketball season carries on. Beal’s 21 points in the NBA Rising Stars Challenge and his runner up finish in the Three-Point shootout added a little more […]

There’s no need to look any further, if there was any need to do so in the first place. There’s no need to get cute and try to look for “sexy” dark horse picks to come out of the NBA’s Eastern Conference this year. Two eyes is all it takes to conclude that the Eastern […]

The NBA has seen the greats before. The Michael Jordans and the Larry Birds all the way to the Kobe Bryants and Wilt Chamberlains. The Association has seen some of the best scorers drill shots with ease while making it look effortless. Jordan’s game was revolutionary while Chamberlain simply couldn’t be stopped. Bird still garners […]

Fresh off his 62-point performance against the Charlotte Bobcats on Jan. 24, Carmelo Anthony is the talk of New York City basketball right now. He’s also a free agent at the end of the season, thanks to a player option in his contract, and his team has been dreadful and dysfunctional this season to say […]

The four teams remaining on championship Sunday in the NFL this weekend– the Denver Broncos, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks– all bring unique styles of play to the gridiron. Denver’s Peyton Manning has shattered passing records this year while the Patriots’ team evolution continues to account for personnel losses. San Francisco’s […]

Jay Gruden’s resume is pretty extensive. After achieving perennial success in the Arena Football League, Gruden has kept his last name unblemished as the younger brother of former head coach and current NFL analyst for ESPN Jon Gruden. Despite his experience and accolades, Jay Gruden has entered uncharted territory as a first-time head coach with […]

Rumors have been circulating since last summer about a potential Carmelo Anthony-for-Blake Griffin trade that would swap mega-stars between two mega-cities. Anthony, on the last year of his deal and playing as a lame duck for the flailing New York Knicks, and Griffin, the Los Angeles Clippers super-talented 24-year-old power forward, certainly don’t lack for […]

Not so long ago, Andrew Bynum was a pivotal piece in the Los Angeles Lakers’ back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. After a failed first year away from California as the key figure in a supposed rebirth of the Philadelphia 76ers, Bynum signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers after sitting out every game the previous season. […]

Fresh off his return from an Achilles injury, Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant is on the mend again, this time with a fractured bone in his left knee. At age 35, Bryant was averaging just less than 14 points per game to go along with 6.3 assists as the Lakers had inserted him in […]

Though three games remain on their 2013 schedule, the Washington NFL team’s season is officially over. With the team free-falling into the offseason at 3-10, the only place for Washington to go is even further down. Head coach Mike Shanahan elected this week to bench Robert Griffin III for the rest of the season in […]