Kevin Durant’s throwdown on Tim Duncan was the beginning of a long night for the Spurs and when the smoked-down Thunder fans finally put one in the win column. One down, three to go. (Tins, if you’re reading this, then it’s seven to go. Salute.) The Oklahoma City Thunder did what many said they could not. The Thunder made adjustments, played with a renewed focus and fed off of Loud City to triumphantly win Game Three of the Western...

Are there any more Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian jokes that haven’t been used yet? Feel free to get them out of the way now before you continue reading. Yep, that one, too. Done? Good. The announcement that the Miami Dolphins will be featured in the seventh edition of HBO’s Hard Knocks was greeted with as much joy as… okay, there was little-to-no joy in the announcement. On the sports world’s real-time stage that is social media, the decision...

Maybe David Stern is still mad at Michael Jordan for gambling back in the early 90′s (this is Bill Simmons’ age-old theory) or maybe The Commissioner felt like he still owed the New Orleans Hornets a sold after trading away Chris Paul and turning down a potentially better offer from the Los Angeles Lakers in the process. I call shenanigans. From the folded envelope for the New York Knicks in the 1985 draft to the lack of championship...

On this edition of #theUCshow, the three amigos chop it up about the current state of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Currently down 2-0, Eddie Maisonet shows some concern, but he is surprisingly stoic. Leave it to Kenny and The Rev to provide additional analysis and concern about the chances of the Thunder coming back to make this a series. We also hear from Till and The Great Myles Brown, as they provide their consistent wisdom. Make sure to check out...

By Matt Whitener / @cheapseatfan It’s storm season, and a familiar forecast is on the horizon. Barry Bonds is looking for a way back into baseball. Now stop for a second and think about that: how oddly correct it is…because he never really was officially kicked out. But in all truth, the all-time home run king was all but thrown out the Major Leagues with a style that only Uncle Phil and Jazz could really appreciate. Since the end of 2007 when...

Watching my favorite team get bludgeoned repeatedly last night by the San Antonio Spurs made me remember a particular snippet from an article Chuck Klosterman wrote titled, “What Ever Happened To The Triangle Offense?” I’d suggest reading the entire piece, as Klosterman in general is one of my favorite writers, but this passage always makes me wonder what if: When the Bulls ran this offense in the ’90s, the key adaptation...

Take a look at the standings in the vaunted Eastern Divisions in Major League Baseball and try not to spit out your coffee. Those aren’t misprints. Two months into the 2012 season, the AL and NL East have been flipped on their respective heads. On the AL side, the Baltimore Orioles are no longer at the bottom looking up at the big, bad Yankees and Red Sox. Instead, it is Baltimore sitting atop the division with Tampa Bay, while the Sox and...

So this is what its come down to, huh? Matt Forte’s been in the league for four years, and last season was the first time that Forte missed any playing time. Forte was out for the final four games of the regular season after spraining the MCL in his right knee. Now, with Forte’s contract up, and the Chicago Bears known to be a bit of a tight-wad organization when it comes to their finances, the Bears brass dropped us with this gem of...

If the sporting world ever needed example of the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, LeBron James certainly gave it one. After being fouled on a layup attempt in the waning minutes of the Miami Heat’s 93-79 Game One win over the Boston Celtics, James stood. Ball in hand, he raised it next to Celtics forward Kevin Garnett. He held it there and, while laughing, he menacingly spoke. “Yeaaaaaahhhh, yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh,”...

It seems Tim Tebow garners the entire craze these days. When every play you run in OTAs gets publicly tweeted and several people are following, you know that you have officially arrived. Why all the love for a backup quarterback? Why all the hype over a quarterback that really hasn’t done anything of significance to warrant the attention he’s getting just yet? Is it because he brought his team back to win a football game or two? Honestly, he’s...