Setting goals in life is always important. For a crazy event like SXSW — one where it is easy to get lost in all the chaos and forget why you are there in the first place — it is essential. I had some long-term goals I set long before the conference, like speaking on a [...]

Perhaps its because I watched The Social Network last night for the 43rd time, but the Beatles’ “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” is reverberating between my eardrums right now. Much like how I feel that flick is the best blockbuster we’ve seen in some time, so is this trade. The stalemate with the Nuggets is [...]

Why did over 100 million folks tune in to watch the Super Bowl this year? If your answer was to watch the game, well, that’s an incomplete pass for you. People tune in so they aren’t clueless on Monday in the break room when their colleagues are talking about “that one Bud Light ad.” Super [...]

Ever been sick? It throws your schedule off something awful. Sometimes it’s because you’re up coughing (and the coughing fit onslaughts mostly seem to happen once your head hits the pillow). Other times it’s because the lethargic cloud over your head lifts and you have more energy than you know what to do with. That’s [...]

Last night was, in my opinion, the greatest UFC card in the company’s history. I have been following the UFC since 1997, and at this point it might be my favorite brand of sport (apologies, NBA, NFL, but it’s true). More on that in a moment. There’s so much to touch upon that I thought [...]

Chris Tucker hasn’t made a good movie since the last good NBA Slam Dunk Contest, and judging by the expression on his face during tonight’s contest the tickets to this crapfest left him broke once and for all. I’m surprised he didn’t stand over a woozy NBA commish David Stern and snicker, “you got knocked [...]

Danica Patrick, the word’s hottest race car driver, was just involved in a pile-up. No, not that kind of pile-up — you’ve been watching too many Go Daddy commercials. While racing in the Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway — in many ways her first real big stock car race — Patrick was involved [...]

Does anybody even want to fight Anderson Silva? That is the question UFC head honcho Dana White, matchmaker Joe Silva and the rest of us are left to ponder after Vitor Belfort pulled out of a UFC 112 match with Silva. Belfort is citing a shoulder injury as the reason, but White is openly questioning [...]

This Strikeforce: Miami card just got the highlight of this early year. Just when Robbie Lawler seemed like he was all but done, he damn near knocked Melvin Manhoef’s head off. Showtime wouldn’t even show the replay for a few minutes because they were unsure just how badly Manhoef was hurt. I thought he was [...]

Those of us who love good ol’ fashion sports columns are big fans of sportswriter Wright Thompson. Those of us with a pulse are inspired by New Orlean’s ability to rebuild itself after Katrina all but wiped the city out. So when Thompson narrates a video chronicling the Big Easy’s resurgence and how the Super [...]

It’s only the first sentence and I already know what most of you are thinking. You looked at the title and said, here’s some Favre apologist who’s going to rattle off a laundry list of excuses for last night’s loss to the Saints. Well, you’re wrong. First off, I’m no Favre apologist. I’m anything but [...]

A few weeks ago, New Orleans Saints kicker Garrett Hartley was the goat. Now, he is the hero who finally sent the Saints to the Super Bowl. The young kicker nailed a 40-yard field goal that I think most people expected him to shank. Especially considering the way kickers have choked this postseason. Instead, Hartley [...]

It’s a done deal; Lebron isn’t dunking in this year’s NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Or is he? His “manager,” Shaquille O’Neal, says he won’t let LeBron dunk in the contest unless the following criteria is met: A.) A huge prize with half the money going to Haiti; B.) Kobe Bryant enters; C.) Vince Carter enters; [...]

(Check ot FlickSided, our brand new film and entertainment site!) Drew Brees and the Saints defense are unstoppable. It is official. With over six minutes to play in the second quarter, they have already put up 28 points. The latest touchdown being a video-gamish 44-yard flea-flicker from Pierre Thomas to Drew Brees to Devery Henderson, [...]

I’m not a big George Lopez fan, but I have to admit I am a fan of a recent feature he did on his show — Who’s Blacker: Charles Barkley or Snoop Dogg? This is just hilarious… I gotta admit, I didn’t think there would be any way in hell Barkley would be blacker than [...]