The FanHouse - Indiana Pacers (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NBA WASHINGTON -- If you aren't from the nation's capital, my hometown, and you know the name Abe Pollin at all, it is probably because of his audacity. At the end of the 2002-2003 NBA season, he fired from the team he owned, the Washington Wizards , Michael Jordan. Such a remembrance would be as understandable as it would be unfortunate. Indeed, Pollin,...
The FanHouse - Miami Heat (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
by Kevin Blackistone The World Cup is fixed. But in the outrage from the illegal handball seen 'round the world (but not by the referees) Wednesday by France's superstar Thierry Henry, which earned the French team a plane ride to South Africa over Ireland for next summer's global soccer scrum, the small fact about the manner in which world soccer's governing body has arranged its grand...
The FanHouse - Michigan Football (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL In July 1965, my father composed and mailed a letter (a letter was this thing you wrote longhand, or at a typewriter, which was this thing ... oh, never mind) to Edward Bennett Williams, who at the time was acting president of the football team for which dad owned season tickets, the Washington Redskins . Dad wanted to bring to the franchise's attention...
The FanHouse - Rutgers Football (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL This is the way I spent the intermission of last season's Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and what seemed like a million people, poured on to the football field to perform a medley of The Boss' best hits: I departed my press seat in the stands with some friends to seek a cup of coffee on...
It's Just Sports (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
This week's featured columnists: Jay Mariotti, Kevin Blackistone, Rick Morissey and Lynn Henning.
The FanHouse - Carolina Panthers (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL Madieu Williams hasn't changed his surname to reflect his Minnesota Vikings jersey number, 20. He doesn't star in a reality television show circling around his life. He doesn't even tweet. He is the anti-Ochocinco, the mirror opposite of T.O., the quietude in the cacophonous world of the modern professional athlete. But Williams' refreshing persona...
The FanHouse - Big 12 Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL , NFL Analysis PHILADELPHIA -- In the wee hours of Monday morning, with a blue Cowboys ' baseball cap pulled down snug on his noggin and a short sleeve T-shirt worn over a long sleeve one, Tony Romo looked like the boyish character we've come to see him as. He looked more like some guy who just finished playing a pick-up football game between fraternities...
The FanHouse - Villanova Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL Tom Cable has been, pun intended, cooling off this week. He shouldn't have been no matter this being his Raiders ' bye week on the NFL schedule. Instead, Cable should've been in New York at a particular building on Park Avenue sweating in the most magnificent office in the joint -- the NFL commissioner's suite. He should've been there explaining...
The FanHouse - Dallas Mavericks (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NCAA Football Among the things the folks at Human Rights Watch keep track of are places on the globe that employ particularly cruel forms of punishment, like, for example, eye gouging. The good news is that for quite some time the list of governments employing such barbarism has been shortening. In fact, it was down to just two, Iran and Saudi Arabia....
The FanHouse - Wisconsin Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL BALTIMORE -- Bill Parcells is famous for assessing his team and the other guy's with a simple review of wins and losses, and an even simpler summation from that evidence: "You are what you are." But even Parcells would've been hard-pressed to so easily judge undefeated Denver and .500 Baltimore before they met Sunday at Baltimore's M&T...
The FanHouse - Notre Dame Football (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL Sylvester Stallone has Hollywood all a twitter (the old school use of the word) right now over an action flick he is producing called The Expendables . Reason is, it stars a bunch of guys' guys including Jason Statham, Jet Li, Julia Roberts' brother Eric and Mickey Rourke, who back in the day I thought Bruce Willis was a cheap imitation of. The movie...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Mariotti’s Kate Hudson is most certainly not the slump-buster A-Rod is looking for. And good thing Kevin Blackistone is wearing a name tag, otherwise we’d have no way of knowing who he’s supposed to be . However, the latter deserves massive credit for prefacing every spiel with “i’m gonna let you finish, Kate Mariotti…” Somebody [...]
The FanHouse - New York Knicks (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: NFL Barack Obama and his family probably didn't meet the longtime neighbor of their new crib at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. William "Doubting" Thomas was in the hospital by the time the Obamas moved in Jan. 20. He died three days later from pulmonary disease. He was just 61. But Thomas lived by day across the street from the White House -- 1601...
The FanHouse - NFL (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
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The FanHouse - Alabama Football (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
by Kevin Blackistone Filed under: Boxing LAS VEGAS -- In a curio cabinet in the living room rests a huge red, white and blue ornamental belt adorned with a massive gold buckle from The Ring magazine proclaiming the late Eddie Futch the greatest boxing trainer of the last century. In the bedroom is a bookcase still reserved for his precious books of poetry, some so worn and old they are...
