Like many of you, I watched a decent portion of Monday night’s NFC Wild Card game between the Cowboys and Buccaneers. And so, like many of you, I watched a guy named Tom Brady have what appeared to be a pretty dreadful evening playing football. And that’s about it. The…

Welcome one, welcome all and welcome back to the latest (Buck)date installment on this fine mid-January afternoon. Our most recent two-week absence has only left me all the fonder of our visits, so to reconvene like this is a sincere treat for yours truly. (Yikes, imagine if I actually talked…

Remember our last visit when I made note that Milwaukee was primed to enter a gauntlet of a road schedule amidst the thick of the holiday season? Well, it happened. I mean, the games were in fact played in the order arranged by the league last offseason — breaking news. …

Alright, so allow this to be a lesson to us all… And when I say ‘us’ please know that I’m mostly referring to my own dumb self. An NBA season is longer, even more winding and unpredictable than you may think. The news/event you may be anticipating can just as…

A funny thing occurred to me a few weeks back during a conversation on the phone with my father. We were talking sports — hardly an uncommon topic between the two of us — and he made a remark about how he’d come across some shockingly harsh, mean-spirited replies to…

Alright, so the dreams of an undefeated NBA season were but short-lived. Is it possible I got out a bit over my skis in suggesting that such a feat might even be attainable? Perhaps. But is life really even worth living if we don’t occasionally allow ourselves to indulge in…

The Milwaukee Bucks may never lose again. Look, I’m not saying it’s likely — but based on all present data I’m not sure what other conclusion there is to be drawn. Those are the perks of a 6–0 start to your season. And it is amidst that aforementioned red-hot start…

On fall Saturdays I make certain to keep the remote control within arm’s length throughout the entire slate of college football action. It used to be as your typical mechanism for the inevitable flipping back and forth between games, but more and more the primary motivation has instead become as…

On Saturday morning an impossibly wonderful scene will take place smack dab in the heartland of the ‘ol US-of-A. The collective eyes and attention of the college football world will be focused squarely on Lawrence, Kansas. Why, you might understandably be asking? Well, because the group of young men comprising…