The Return of the Rock

Time for my annual pre-WrestleMania post… The main event for this year’s event is current poster boy John Cena vs. the last generation’s poster boy The Rock.  So who will win?  The answer is obvious if you know how pro wrestling works… The last true ‘Icon vs. Icon’ match also involved the Rock, when he […]

For Trayvon…

(sigh) While there wasn’t really any chance I was going to sit this one out, as information has continued to spill out about this case, I find myself driven to the point of nearly ‘ranting’.  I’ll do my best to just make it plain and stay on topic, but if I end up write/yelling in […]

Madness!

Depending on where you grew up or went to college (or both), today marks the official beginning of one of the most fun stretches in the sports year.  As most of you know, I’m huge a sports fan.  Ironically, college basketball is clearly in that second tier group of sports I follow (with baseball, golf, […]

The Announcement

ESPN’s documentary ‘The Announcement’ didn’t have too many revelations, but was a bittersweet trip down memory road if you were any kind of Magic Johnson fan.    So how big of a Magic Johnson fan am I?  Well for the uninitiated… After Michael Jackson, Magic was easily my second biggest childhood idol, and my favorite […]

Undefeated

Some of the marketing I’ve seen for Undefeated has said it’s one of those movies that makes men cry.  If you’re a regular reader here, you already know that I didn’t cry.  But I will admit there were a couple of moments in the film where my allergies really started acting up… This year’s Oscar winner for […]

Vote Yes on Proposition 18

So as of today, one of the 5 greatest quarterbacks of all time will be free to ‘attempt’ (a word that can’t be used strongly enough) to add a few more years to his first ballot Hall of Fame career.  My team, the Kansas City Chiefs, is one of the teams considered to have a […]

2012 Oscar Wrap Up

So we had technical difficulties, so if you weren’t keeping up with me on Twitter, you didn’t get my thoughts (sorry).  A few post game feelings though… You all know how much I’m a fan of Clooney, so I was genuinely surprised/amused at the disgust and hate when he didn’t get the Best Actor award. […]

2012 Oscar Preview Part IV: Best Picture

Alright, let’s look at the biggie: Best Picture Who I Want to Win: Hm.  Good movies this year, but nothing that feels like ‘I’ll stop whatever I’m doing when this comes on cable next year’.  I’d say ‘Moneyball’ but now I want to pull a ‘reverse jaded’ move (yep, made that word up) since Pitt was […]

2012 Oscar Preview, Part III: The Actors

And now, let’s talk about the gents… Best Actor in a Supporting Role Who I Want to Win: The film is earning its own cult, but Nick Nolte was the heart of Warrior, and turned in one of his better performances. Who Should Win: One of the rare times where who I want to win is I think should […]

2012 Oscar Preview Part II: the Actresses

Today we look at the ladies… Best Actress in a Supporting Role Who I Want to Win: I might get outcast for saying this, but being partial to comedy anyway, I thought Melissa McCarthy stole every scene in the best comedy that came up last year. Who Should Win: She’s kind of been the black sheep as […]