The Los Angeles Dodgers are at a crossroads. On one hand, they enter into baseball’s annual winter meetings as one of the spotlight teams to spend, while on the other they have the reality of the market to respect. Since their acquisition by “Team Magic,” there’s been no cost, no measure outside of their reach. And while the club has added a fantastic amount of talent in the last half year (Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford,...

I don’t understand Notre Dame. I know what it is. I know a bit of what it represents to people. I know everyone aside from Fighting Irish fans hates Notre Dame. But, I don’t get it. Perhaps it’s because I’ve never met an alumnus of the Indiana school. I heard that those who gain their diploma from South Bend are pompous. People tell me most of their fans are jerks, pretty much because they root for the gold helmets. There...

July 18, 2008. That was the date that started it all, and while one can see the title of this post and wonder what that has to do with anything, allow me to explain. On that date, The Dark Knight was released in theaters nationwide, and I was anticipating this movie for two reasons. One, Batman is my favorite superhero of all-time, and two, The Joker is my favorite villain of all-time. I love The Joker, but I had severe reservations about the role...

By Johnathan Tillman / @thetillshow December 2, 2012. For the second straight Sunday, I was blessed with the rare occurrence of my favorite NFL and NBA teams playing on the same day. This one was especially nice because for a period of time, the viewing of both games overlapped. The New York Knicks had a noon tip with the Suns, and the San Francsico 49ers kicked off an hour later in St. Louis against the Rams. I had both games on simultaneously,...

I remember taking some time and visiting a friend in Durham, North Carolina, for the first time. I lived about two hours away, and my friend who had gone to school a year earlier was there. I was visiting one of my friends who attended Duke University, and he along with everyone else kept talking about a kid still in high school and how good he was. Seriously, it was like people telling old wives’ tales about guys who were superhuman. At one...

The photo you see above is during my 25th birthday extravaganza in Las Vegas back in 2008. There were plenty of memorable moments that took place in Sin City, from seeing the 2008 Redeem Team play before heading to the Olympics, to having Gabrielle Union blow a kiss at me during Dwyane Wade’s party at the Wynn, to going dumb on the monorail while on our way to get some food. Those are the few stories that I’m allowed to tell you. However,...

People, one of our basketball heroes is the victim of a basketball injustice today. The people’s champion, Rasheed Wallace, was ejected from an NBA basketball game earlier today for telling the truth in the face of officiating incompetence and striped-shirted blasphemy. He was seen screaming, “Ball don’t lie!,” following a missed free throw on an egregious technical foul called on him. For those unfamiliar with the phrase,...

By Timothy Threadcraft / @shadcraft21 Seems just about every year, there’s an upstart Heisman candidate that seems to captivate America’s interest for a few fleeting moments. Last year it was RG3. Safe to say that turned out pretty well. Before that, there were plenty of ‘gamers,’ vying for our hearts. Denard Robinson, Christian Ponder, Terrelle Pryor, Tate Forcier, hell, even Jevan Snead were Heisman contenders and projected first-round...

Its crazy to think that this is Kobe Bryant’s 8th release of signature shoes with Nike. Folks are quick to forget those memorable and forgettable releases from the Three Stripes back in the day, but the evolution of Kobe’s “System” has indeed proven that a low-top shoe can reign supreme on any type of basketball. Late this week, Nike and Kobe unveiled the latest Mamba kicks, with the Kobe 8 System: “I’m always focused...

Walking into a new sports arena is always a bit of a goosebumps moment. While I’d technically been to Oracle Arena before via the corporate squares suite about a month prior, actually sitting with the people (okay, media section … let me live) is a different experience altogether. You see, the only real experiences I’d had of the Golden State Warriors in Oakland were of the days of Run-TMC, the Sprewell-Gatling years and the We...