Category Archives: Sports

Who Wore It Better?

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Tom Garrett

A valid question.

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You Won’t See This Again Anytime Soon

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Tom Garrett

I love Major League Baseball, but my first and greatest love as a sports fan is the National Football League. One of the many peculiar things about me is that I own a large DVD album filled with disc after … Continue reading →

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Quick Thoughts on the Rumble

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Tom Garrett

I’m trying my best to keep this charmingly eclectic website from morphing into an all-wrestling blog, but I feel compelled to discuss a few things that happened last night after spending so much time in fevered anticipation of same.  I … Continue reading →

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The End of the World (Or Maybe Just a Fun Pay-Per-View)

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Tom Garrett

The 2012 Royal Rumble pay-per-view includes just four announced matches, but the show nonetheless looks like the most interesting edition within memory.  The WWE has done a great job of enhancing each match with intrigue that goes beyond the basic … Continue reading →

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The Bark Side of the Force

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Tom Garrett

Things have been a little long-winded around here of late.  I wanted to try to accomplish two things with this post.  First, drop the Brow-o-Meter down a notch or two.  Mission accomplished.  Secondly, I wanted to see how many categories … Continue reading →

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Six Open Questions About Tim Tebow

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Tom Garrett

If you can’t stand Tim Tebow, here’s the good news: This will be the last Tebow-related piece I write until at least August, barring some unforeseen incident involving a trade or the Rapture. The bad news is that it’s going … Continue reading →

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An Abridged History of Pro Wrestling’s Ethnic Identity Crisis

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Tom Garrett

Highlighting ethnicity or nationality to help get certain professional wrestlers “over” is a technique as old as the business itself.  The WWWF (later the WWF, now the WWE) used the origins of Bruno Sammartino (Italian), Spiros Arion (Greek), and Pedro … Continue reading →

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What it Means to be the Best

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Tom Garrett

The old adage about Ric Flair held that the Nature Boy was such a skilled in-ring performer in his prime that he could have a four-star match with a broomstick. What I always liked about that aphorism was that it … Continue reading →

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Spooky Action at a Distance

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Tom Garrett

Teams of scientists working with the CERN Large Hadron Collider announced this week that the elusive Higgs boson has quite possibly been observed for the first time.  The level of certainty provided by the recent run of data isn’t sufficient … Continue reading →

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This Strange, Twitterfied World

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Tom Garrett

The profound changes to our culture wrought by the rise of the Internet as a whole are obvious to all.  But I’m fascinated by one very surprising and strange way in which Twitter specifically altered the manner in which we … Continue reading →

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