For some the NBA All-Star Weekend is just one big party. For the degenerate it is a chance to get back some of our losses on those Super Bowl prop bets. Damn CBS and their Kardashian-free broadcast! But we’ve got a short memory. That’s what makes us the degenerates that we are. Forget those worthless [...]

Part competition, part spectacle, part popularity contest, the dunk competition is one of the premiere exhibitions in all of sports. Despite the contest taking a hit in recent years, it remains a must watch every All-Star weekend. While we’ll never forget the legends of the past who have sat atop the Mount Rushmore of dunks, [...]

This is the moment we have been waiting for. The Super Bowl is to degenerate gamblers what the MTV Video Music Awards is to pedophiles. That one day of the year when your sickness is masked by the glitz and glamour of an overblown spectacle. After chasing our losses over the past five months, we’ve [...]

Let me paint a picture for you. Imagine if you will that Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida, is really a saloon. It is a slow, humid Sunday afternoon and the saloon is filled with vivacious patrons. The room is abuzz as libations flow free and joyous music reverberates off the walls. Suddenly there is [...]

Watching the Super Bowl just for the sake of seeing the newest ads has become an openly accepted practice. What was once a ploy used to get more eyes on America’s biggest sporting event is now a multi-million dollar industry whose sheer intrigue rivals that of the big game itself. From Peyton Manning’s pursuit of [...]

After seeing how his favorite sporting event was being bastardized, an enraged Peter Griffin sought our help to reach NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Since Mr. Goodell is a regular reader of the FanSided Sports Blog, Peter thought this would be the ideal way to get his suggestions on how to fix the Pro Bowl to [...]

With the NBA season at its midpoint, let’s takes a look at some of the lesser achievements reached through the first half of the season. The Sasha Vujacic Award for most Annoying Foreign Born Player Omri Casspi Casspi keeps the Sacramento tradition alive as he walks the path plowed by Peja Stojakovic and Hedo Turkoglu [...]

Shaking hands with his opponent after a defeat doesn’t make much sense to LeBron James and neither does keeping his word. After “preliminary” putting his name into the hat for the 2010 dunk competition, the self proclaimed King has reversed court and withdrawn. The NBA’s announcement of the participants that will entertain the crowd in [...]

Now at days, it has become increasingly difficult to trust football coaches. They speak in such coded language, ever careful not to incriminate themselves, that one can hardly recognize their language as Standard English. When Nick Saban said he was not going to be the coach at Alabama, we assumed he was going to remain [...]

He was once the face of a renewed love for our national pastime. Now, Mark McGwire represents the two-faced nature of our country. The financial district has Bernie Madoff. The political sector had Richard Nixon. With his overdue admission of steroid use, the sports world now has Mark McGwire. All of the aforementioned liars are [...]

Are you tired of the same old boring comedy? Do you enjoy uncomfortable laughter followed by awkward silence? Wish you could learn the art of bad humor? Well, my friends, you’re in luck! The Gilbert Arenas School of Comedy is enrolling now! Become the life of the party by learning from the master of bad [...]

On the surface, ESPN’s plans to launch a 3D network might seem like a good idea. That is until you consider some of the athletes who could be invading your living room. Fortunately for us, Sam Cassell is retired. Unfortunately for us, there are still plenty of athletes out there who make Medusa cringe. While [...]

Those BCS party crashers in Boise, Idaho, were up to their old tricks again. Picture this: Fourth quarter, Boise State and Texas Christian are deadlocked at 10 a piece in a defensive struggle with just over 9 minutes left until the clock struck midnight on one team’s perfect season. Desperately needing to inject life into [...]

As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, we’re left with fading sports memories of the last ten years. Thanks to the exponential growth of the sports media and that wonderful gift from Al Gore – the internet – we have everything preserved for eternity in cyberspace. Take a stroll down [...]

(Irrational advice for the gambler trying to win big just to break even for the holidays) NFL San Diego Chargers (+3) vs. Tennessee Titans – Now that the in-laws are busy helping your kids clean up after Christmas dinner, it’s time to sneak away for a little NFL action. The Chargers are red hot having [...]