The 10 Most Important GIFs From Week 4

The 49ers save their season (for now), Steve Smith gets revenge and Teddy Bridgewater rises like a phoenix from Matt Cassel’s ashes. Oh yeah, and Antonio Brown? He’s kind of good, that guy.   10. Good Colin Kaepernick overshadows Bad Colin Kaepernick. (At least for this game.) Thanks to their defense, my favorite team survived the […]

The 10 Most Important GIFs From Week 3

  Although the NFL continues to be mired by the off-field actions of their players and the inaction of their commissioner, and considering that the 49ers lost, again, and the Seahawks won, it’s hard to feel great about watching football. However, things aren’t all bad in the NFL, because we still have GIFs! Check out the […]

The 10 Most Important GIFs From Week 2

After another exciting weekend in the NFL, let’s, again, run down the most important GIFs from this past week.   10. James Jones (Current Raider) Doing Raider Things. Rashad Jennings (Former Raider) Still Doing Raider Things.   First, James Jones fumbles not once, but twice on the same play. Across the country, former-Raider Rashad Jennings […]

The 10 Most Important GIFs From Week 1

Week 1 has concluded, and now you need to know the important things that happened. I understand not all of us have NFL Sunday Ticket, NFL RedZone, or internet machines, so I’ve compiled the list free of charge. No need to thank me. Behold, here are the 10 must-see GIFs from opening weekend, along with […]

And Another Season Begins…

With the start of the 2014 NFL regular season tonight, Jim Armstrong and Rory Goulding give their picks for the game, and prepare you for another exciting season of NFL football.   Jim Armstrong: I like to think of the summer months as the Doldrums of the sporting calendar year. The World Cup was our […]

Spinning the “Could Have Been” Wheel

Three cautionary “what-if” teams from the past twenty years Although Jim Armstrong already outlined some of the better known “what-if” teams from the last two decades, here’s a look at three more that had unlucky bounces, unfortunate events, or just plain incompetence derail their bright futures and thwart their chance at greatness.   2011-12 San […]

Idiot American Explains: World Cup Jerseys

    I’ll start with this: the only takeaways from my younger soccer experiences were that A) I hated playing, and B) the jerseys, especially the World Cup ones, were really cool looking. That’s it. To be fair, I did attempt to play a few times, but my frustration at either never getting the ball, […]

2014 NBA Postseason: 5 West Questions

After the excitement of Round 1, the playoffs seem have hit their stride. Sadly, LeBron and the Heat seem to have found a stride of their own, just one win away from reaching the Eastern Conference Finals for the 4th consecutive season. The West, however, seems to be a little bit more up-in-the-air. I decided […]

NBA Playoffs Preview: A Lesson in Hip-Hop (Part II)

If you missed Part I of our NBA Playoff Preview from yesterday, go ahead and check it out now. Before we dive into the Western Conference playoff preview, let’s start with some personal history. My adolescence was spent in the heyday of streetball’s peak,  when two of my greatest affections, basketball and hip hop, formed […]

NBA Playoffs Preview: A Lesson in Hip-Hop (Part I)

The end of the NBA regular season is always exciting. It signals the end of the spring semester in college and the beginning of summer. It’s one of my favorite times of the year, when the best teams and players in the NBA actually start trying in EVERY game, not just some of them. I […]