If you looked at the 2011-12 and 2012-13 NBA seasons in a vacuum, you’d swear on your life that LeBron James was the greatest basketball player and leader the game has seen since the days of Michael Jordan and the Miami Heat the most formidable collection of talent since the dynastic teams of...

Back in August, the Philadelphia 76ers did something they hadn’t done in forever, swinging for the fences and acquiring all-star center Andrew Bynum in a four-team, blockbuster trade. It brought excitement and optimism to Philadelphia as the long-suffering Sixers fans waited for the first true player...

“The Sandlot” is one of the greatest baseball movies of all time, and if you don’t agree, you can just stop reading this right now. I’m not even joking. Go away. If you’ve never seen “The Sandlot,” first off, shame on you. Secondly, where the hell have you been the past 20 years? Third,...

After the artist formerly known as Roy Halladay gave up an eight-spot in less than four innings of work, I was able to focus my undivided attention to the NBA and NHL playoffs. OK, so since I have two televisions in my living room with the NBA on one and the NHL on the other, I guess my attention was,...

Being an NBA basketball player is one of the toughest jobs in the entire world to get. There are just 15 roster spots apiece on each of the 30 NBA franchises. For those of you counting, that’s just 450 jobs total for an NBA player. Unlike baseball and its 25-man rosters, football and its 53-man...

Over the span of three days, I attended six college basketball games at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia for what is now considered the second and third rounds of the NCAA Tournament. As I am writing this Tuesday afternoon, I am coming off a 103.9 fever, a day of being incapacitated and delirious,...

Last night, the greatest event known to man tipped off, and for all intents and purposes, the madness truly gets underway tomorrow. I’m not even sure I can properly explain how excited I get this time every year. Not only does my favorite thing in the entire world – the NCAA Tournament –...

A couple of weeks ago on The Unsportsmanlike Conduct Show, I expressed my disdain for all things Andrew Bynum. The annoyance around Bynum and his sideshow, as opposed to Andrew Bynum the basketball player, had reached its tipping point, to the point where our own Justin Tinsley, on behalf of the African-American...

A lot has been made this week, mostly among the uninformed, about the Chicago Blackhawks and their record-setting streak in gaining at least one point in every game so far to start this season. As it currently stands, following last night’s victory over the Minnesota Wild, the Blackhawks have...

Exactly three weeks from today, I will turn 29 years old. That means I was not even conceived yet when the 1982-83 Philadelphia 76ers completed a sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers to win the 1983 NBA title. I never saw a single second of that team take the court, never saw the madness of a playoff game...

Right now, life is good for Indiana Hoosiers head basketball coach Tom Crean. His brothers-in-law faced off in the Super Bowl, where John Harbaugh’s Baltimore Ravens bested Jim Harbaugh’s San Francisco 49ers. His Indiana squad started out the season atop the rankings and is back at No. 1...

As a sports fan who attends quite a bit of live sporting events, there’s something that never ceases to annoy me. And this being The Sports Fan Journal and all, I thought it appropriate to broach the subject here. The thing that annoys the hell out of me is people who do not sit in the proper...