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TSFJ Run Challenge — Testimonies: Becoming Stronger Through Adversity

The Sportsfan Journal Staff July 25, 2014 No Comments

Life has a way of bringing us to our knees, a way of humbling us, a way of sending a reminder that no matter how hard we work or how…

TSFJ Run Challenge — Testimonies: Becoming Stronger Through Adversity

TSFJ Run Challenge — Week 3: Different People, Same Mission

The Sportsfan Journal Staff July 23, 2014 No Comments

Over the past few weeks, we have talked about the importance of exercise and why it’s so hard for everyone to commit to it. This week, we have taken it…

TSFJ Run Challenge — Week 3: Different People, Same Mission

TSFJ Run Challenge - Week 2 Results: Finding A Reason To Make A Change

The Sportsfan Journal Staff July 15, 2014 No Comments

Last week, most of the runners in TSFJ Run Challenge were sure they were going to die. The courage it took to even try the challenge is a great first…

TSFJ Run Challenge - Week 2 Results: Finding A Reason To Make A Change

TSFJ Run Challenge - Week 1: 'This Is Probably Going To Kill Me'

The Sportsfan Journal Staff July 8, 2014 No Comments

Week 1 of TSFJ's Run Challenge has been a grind, but it's also been a lot of fun. Many of the runners have taken to social media with the hashtag #tsfjrunchallenge…

TSFJ Run Challenge - Week 1: 'This Is Probably Going To Kill Me'

The TSFJ Run Challenge Is Here

The Sportsfan Journal Staff June 30, 2014 No Comments

Picture courtesy of Zack Sylvan. Sometime in May, Crazy Joe Simmons and I were talking about different types of workouts when he told me about a running group he was…

The TSFJ Run Challenge Is Here

Remembering Tony Gwynn And The Game I Used To Love

The Sportsfan Journal Staff June 19, 2014 No Comments

By Jamar Hudson / @jamarhudson One of the most telling signs of aging is when a prominent figure of your childhood passes away. That feeling is accentuated even more when…

Remembering Tony Gwynn And The Game I Used To Love

Friends, Pets And Fans Bring Out The Loyalty In Life

The Sportsfan Journal Staff June 12, 2014 No Comments

I came home Tuesday evening to a cat on her last of nine lives. She lied in the driveway and inched closer to death. Hours later, she died. After 19…

Friends, Pets And Fans Bring Out The Loyalty In Life

50 Cent 'Dies Tryin' With First-Pitch Attempt

The Sportsfan Journal Staff May 28, 2014 No Comments

Pitching is a particular form of artistry. At its best, it is a choir-like blend of coordination, thought, strategy, power and head-to-head battle. A perfectly set up pitch that bites…

50 Cent 'Dies Tryin' With First-Pitch Attempt

Our Struggles With Race, Sexuality And Drugs In American Sports

The Sportsfan Journal Staff May 27, 2014 No Comments

The past two or three weeks in the sports world have been anything but normal. About a week before the NFL Draft, the sports world got turned upside down with…

Our Struggles With Race, Sexuality And Drugs In American Sports

On Tyrion Lannister, Mike Tyson And Wishing You'd Actually Done The Deed

Eddie Maisonet, III May 16, 2014 No Comments

There's a weekly tradition around here in the Maisonet household, as on Sunday nights there's nothing else that I'm doing other than watching HBO's critically acclaimed show "Game of Thrones."…

On Tyrion Lannister, Mike Tyson And Wishing You'd Actually Done The Deed

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Eddie Maisonet, III


Eddie Maisonet is the founder and editor emeritus of The Sports Fan Journal. Currently, he serves as an associate editor for ESPN.com. He is an unabashed Russell Westbrook and Barry Switzer apologist, owns over 100 fitteds and snapbacks, and lives by Reggie Jackson’s famous quote, “I am the straw that stirs the drink.”


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Four Ways To Resurrect Major League Baseball's Audience

The Sportsfan Journal Staff September 3, 2020 No Comments

By Piper Westrom (@plwestrom) & Adam Cribbs (@a_cribbs23) With virtually every professional sport in America back up and running, as well as football looming on the horizon, it’s been no…

TSFJ NBA Re-Draft: The Class of 2008

The Sportsfan Journal Staff August 25, 2020 No Comments

Revisionist history is something that permeates throughout sports. "What could have been" resonates when another scenario could have been better than the chosen reality. This is especially true years after…

Meet The LA Galaxy's Rising Star, Diedie Traore

The Sportsfan Journal Staff August 24, 2020 No Comments

Every January, the LA Galaxy staff host an event providing an opportunity for undiscovered players to demonstrate their skills. In 2018, it netted some real-time results. Diedie Traore is the…

'Chasing Indiana's Game: The Hoosier Hardwood Project' Is A Journey Into Indiana's Rich Basketball Culture

The Sportsfan Journal Staff August 19, 2020 No Comments

'Chasing Indiana's Game: The Hoosier Hardwood Project' Is A Journey Into Indiana's Rich Basketball CultureBefore the game of basketball evolved into today's dynamic game with position-less players, deep threes from…

TSFJ NBA Re-Draft: The Class of 2006

The Sportsfan Journal Staff August 2, 2020 No Comments

Revisionist history is something that permeates throughout sports. "What could have been" resonates when another scenario could have been better than the chosen reality. This is especially true years after…

Ed The Sports Fan

Larry Johnson Reflects on Becoming 'Grandmama', Converse Kicks And Winning Titles In Las Vegas

The Sportsfan Journal Staff May 28, 2020 No Comments

Growing up as a kid, Larry Johnson was one of the coolest people on the planet. In my pee-brain mind, there was nothing like Larry Johnson. NCAA champion on the…

The Day Michael Jordan Got Put On A Poster

Eddie Maisonet, III April 11, 2020 No Comments

If you play the game of basketball long enough, you'll inevitably be put into a conundrum while playing defense under the rim. You could get dunked on at any moment.…

Thierry Henry Made Me Fall In Love With Soccer

Eddie Maisonet, III March 11, 2020 No Comments

It's the dirty little secret that really isn't a secret at all. I love soccer. While some of you are sitting there saying, "Tell us something we don't know, Ed.…

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

Eddie Maisonet, III February 17, 2020 No Comments

In my opinion, Love & Basketball is one of the few films in the world that both men and women will have no issue sitting down and watching. Although the…

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Remembering The Peter Warrick Experience, 20 Years Later

Eddie Maisonet, III July 29, 2019 No Comments

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…

A Sports Scribe

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

The Sportsfan Journal Staff December 17, 2012 14 Comments

The Sports Fan's 3-Point Guide To The NBA All-Star Snub Argument

The Sportsfan Journal Staff January 31, 2014 12 Comments

NFL First Quarter Report Card: Who’s Hot And Who’s Not

The Sportsfan Journal Staff October 1, 2012 11 Comments

100 Miles And Running: 5 Things I Learned When I Started Running

Eddie Maisonet, III April 29, 2016 11 Comments

The 5 Coolest Of 2012: #3 - LeBron James

Eddie Maisonet, III December 27, 2012 10 Comments
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