February 21 is a day that homage is paid from the time the hand strikes midnight until the hand is sitting on 11:59 P.M. The reason that is the case is because it marks the day that Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom in New York. The masses like to regurgitate other dates of fallen figures...

It’s rare that an athlete can captivate the attention of the sports public in the span of one week. Well, to be technical about it, I’ve never known of an athlete that was able to capture the imagination of sports fans over the course of six days. In six days, the coolest of 2012 won his three main...

True story: Prior to this past summer, my only memory of Wembley Stadium was SummerSlam 1992 when the main event was The British Bulldog against Bret Hart for the WWF Intercontinental Championship in front of 80,355 people or something crazy like that. Lennox Lewis came down the aisle for the main event...

By Dillon Friday / @noclassfriday Twenty-four years ago, Ben Johnson lost his Gold medal in the most damning way possible. He tested positive for steroids. (Probably going to have to go to California Drug Rehab) To call Johnson a sacrificial lamb would be hyperbolic. To call him a scapegoat would be...

Admittedly, these Olympics, for reasons I have yet to completely nail down, have kept my attention more than any Olympic season ever. They’ve got me staying up well past my 8:00 bedtime, thus making my morning struggle even more of a struggle than it already is. On top of that, the usual events (basketball,...

On this recent edition of The UC Show, Tinsley and Kenny tell the world about the greatness that is Usain Bolt and how the man basically held people’s Sunday hostage with his impending performance in the 200. Also, we make fun of Ed for missing the show for a fantasy football draft, as well as...

I can’t remember being so pissed off at a network in my entire life. I cleared my schedule, work up early, cooked myself breakfast and did everything else I needed to do so that I could watch my favorite events of the Olympics. The track and field events. I won’t go into the pageantry of...

Of course you have your criticisms of NBC’s Olympic coverage. Who doesn’t? In some rather unfortunate ways, the rage toward the Peacock’s broadcasting decisions is getting more attention than the Games themselves. Maybe it’s because social media tends to be as much a newswire as it is a barometer...

Something’s different about these Olympics. It’s hard to put a finger on exactly why it’s different, but it’s different nonetheless. Perhaps the American sports fan is drowned in overexposure. It’s possible that the baseball fan is glued to the TV to find out if the team...

Yes, Team USA took care of business against France on Sunday in an impressive 98-71 victory in London. It was the opening game of the Men’s Basketball tournament of the 2012 Olympics and all of the things we expected happened. LeBron James showed out. Kevin Durant went off. Even Anthony Davis...

Four years in the making all comes down to the next two weeks. Four years ago this time, I was living in Chicago, looking for a full-time job, watched damn near every waking moment of the Olympics in Beijing and almost went for broke dining off strictly Harold’s Chicken. Coincidentally, the one...

Believe it or not, it was 20 years ago today that the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, brought basketball to the national stage like never before. It was July 25, 1992, when the Dream Team took a stroll through Olympic Stadium before running roughshod on the world. While the Dream Team came...