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Category: Life's A Ball

Finding Balance Between Sabermetrics And Time-Honored Tradition

The Sportsfan Journal Staff March 12, 2015 No Comments

*This column was originally published on Dalton Johnson's blog Life's A Ball on May 8, 2014. From the first days that baseball was played, the essence of the game was built…

Finding Balance Between Sabermetrics And Time-Honored Tradition

The Key Offseason Moves For Every MLB Team

The Sportsfan Journal Staff February 26, 2015 No Comments

The sport that never sleeps is finally inching towards actual games, which means before we know it, the same faces will be sporting new baseball uniforms in new places. Spring…

The Key Offseason Moves For Every MLB Team

On Josh Hamilton's Addicton And Not Feeling Alone

The Sportsfan Journal Staff February 26, 2015 No Comments

'I'm proof that hope is never lost.' That simple, yet hard-hitting saying, is exactly what Josh Hamilton titled an article he wrote for ESPN The Magazine (as told to Time…

On Josh Hamilton's Addicton And Not Feeling Alone

James Shields Joins Trade Partner Wil Myers In San Diego

The Sportsfan Journal Staff February 9, 2015 No Comments

Close your eyes. Now shake your San Diego beach-themed snow globe until your body orbits back to Dec. 9, 2012. On that day, fans of the Tampa Bay Rays were…

James Shields Joins Trade Partner Wil Myers In San Diego

Marshawn Lynch Is A Marketing Genius

The Sportsfan Journal Staff January 29, 2015 No Comments

Silent but deadly. The motto may as well be as connected to Marshawn Lynch as his nickname "Beast Mode." Lynch is silent in interviews but deadly on the field. His…

Marshawn Lynch Is A Marketing Genius

The Best Moments Of The 2015 NFL Pro Bowl

The Sportsfan Journal Staff January 26, 2015 No Comments

At this point when we think of the NFL's postseason All-Star Game, aka the Pro Bowl, there's only one way to look at the game: it is what it is.…

The Best Moments Of The 2015 NFL Pro Bowl

Is Klay Thompson's 37-Point 3rd Quarter The Best Quarter In NBA History?

The Sportsfan Journal Staff January 24, 2015 No Comments

After the news came out on Kobe Bryant missing the rest of the season with a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder, two men had to step their game…

Is Klay Thompson's 37-Point 3rd Quarter The Best Quarter In NBA History?

No Last Laugh For Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

The Sportsfan Journal Staff January 19, 2015 No Comments

Early in Sunday's NFC championship, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, the Green Packers rookie free safety, was laughing in the face of the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. From his days…

No Last Laugh For Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

Bucks Vs. Ducks: The First College Football Playoff Ends Here

The Sportsfan Journal Staff January 12, 2015 No Comments

When the Florida State Seminoles and Jameis Winston sat on top of the world as BCS champions last year, FSU fans were on cloud nine, but they were far from…

Bucks Vs. Ducks: The First College Football Playoff Ends Here

Bucks Vs. Ducks: 5 Things We Learned After The College Football Playoff Doubleheader

The Sportsfan Journal Staff January 2, 2015 No Comments

Take a bow College Football Playoffs. On the first day of 2015, Kanye dropped a new single with Paul McCartney, Florida State finally lost, and the two heads of college…

Bucks Vs. Ducks: 5 Things We Learned After The College Football Playoff Doubleheader

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15 Takeaways From The Oral History Of 'Love & Basketball'

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Remembering The Peter Warrick Experience, 20 Years Later

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When Notre Dame and Florida State, two of college football's blue bloods, did battle back in 1993, I wasn't old enough (or aware enough) to appreciate it. See, I didn't…

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Speaking Up About Our Pain - Again

The Sportsfan Journal Staff June 3, 2020 No Comments

A few years ago in this very space here at TSFJ, we mourned about a country reminding us of its preferred citizen hierarchy in violent ways. Professional and amateur athletes…

Youngest In Charge: Kyrie's Kingdom

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