TSDMike | July 5, 2009

In order to focus my attention on completing my book project, I will not be updating this blog or TheSportsDick with new material until after the first of August.

In the meantime, I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed or email subscriptions and friend me up on Facebook or follow me on Twitter to stay informed.

If you’re a blogger and you want to provide guest a post for this site, send me an email as I would surely appreciate the content.

See you in a month.

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TSDMike | June 29, 2009

I can’t believe it has come to this. I am actually writing a post about Soccer.

It’s not that I don’t like soccer. I kind of view it as I see the game of rugby. It’s an interesting game and as a sports fan, I can see why people like it. But I am an American. And as an American, my attention span is already filled to capacity with the likes of professional baseball, pro football, pro basketball, college basketball, pro hockey, MMA, the major golf tournaments, and women’s mud wrestling. There just isn’t enough room for anything else, save for the occasional Olympic event or the local minor league sports franchises.

Many people, like Jeffrey Kayer from BleacherReport.com, think that this is going to be the turning point toward a significant rise in the popularity of soccer in this country. I disagree.

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Tags: popularity, soccer, sports, usa, zidane

TSDMike | June 22, 2009

I rarely read Rick Reilly’s columns on ESPN.com. I’ve always found his pieces to be highly critical items of little substance whose sole position was to imply a morally superior position when his is often anything but. But, I don’t bitch about him. I refrain from bashing Mr. Reilly even though I find it quite pretentious that you can’t find one of his articles online without a tidbit about the 11 Sportswriter of the Year accolades he’s won invariably floating around the page in a conspicuously impossible-to-ignore spot.

But, after checking out his latest article, I have to make an exception. In short, Reilly’s latest digital version of Charmin substitute absolutely rips the softball coach of a Minnesota women’s softball coach for winning a game on the technicality of an obscure (and likely widely uninforced) rule.

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Tags: Baseball, coaching, integrity, Jean Musgjerd, jennie finch, kids, pony league, teenagers, winning, womens softball

TSDMike | May 28, 2009

I made a friendly bet with one of my blogger buddies last week that if the Red Wings beat the Blackhawks in NHL Western Conference finals that he’d have to display a mildly humiliating banner in a conspicuous place on the index page of his site.

Two nights ago, I whipped up a quick graphic and in a dick move sent it over to him early, even though the series wasn’t exactly over yet, as the Wings were only up three games to one in the best-of-seven series. Detroit didn’t clinch the series until late last night.

Well I just checked out his site and sure enough, he manned up and installed my banner on his blog – check out my artwork on his site, haroldmartin.net.

So Blackhawks fans are OK as far as I am concerned – well at least one of them is.

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Tags: bet, Chicago blackhawks, detroit red wings, NHL