tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:18:50 +0000NFLMLBNCAA FBNBAother sportsNCAA BBAn alternative view to sportshttp://jfishsports.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (J Fish)Blogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-7082746716900282146Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:10:00 +00002010-03-26T12:13:31.981-05:00J Fish Sports will be up for a little while longer, but will eventually move over to Sports Sabbath. It'll be my new home for writing, podcasting and the Sports Sabbath radio show. All the old archives will be over there, but there won't be anymore new posts at J Fish Sports.http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/03/site-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-7022278215960850774Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:34:00 +00002010-03-18T15:33:41.757-05:00NCAA BBUgh. Woke up late due to St. Patrick's festivities. Have to do half of my office pool brackets by hand. On the flip side, listening to the much improved Jay Bilas. It has begun. All times are Central, by the way.(11:44) Trying to figure out why Kansas City gets Notre Dame/Old Dominion. What control group decided this was better than BYU/Florida?(11:47) Tim Abromaitis. The Greek God of Drunken http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/03/live-ncaa-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-3180513466961920677Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:31:00 +00002010-03-10T23:03:58.464-06:00NCAA BBI'm not going to rant about how bad of an idea to expand the NCAA tournament to 96 teams is. Everyone - and I mean everyone - thinks it's awful. So let's just leave it there. What I want to focus on, and what I feel is the important subtext here, is what this idea and the ideas that come after mean for the future of sports.Cesar Chavez said, "Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed." Thehttp://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/03/96-problems-but-this-aint-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-1174868038295847634Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:21:00 +00002010-03-03T17:25:03.707-06:00Be sure to visit Sports Sabbath, hosted by UMKC's University News. Hear me talk shit, it's quicker than reading it.Click here!http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/03/official-sports-sabbath-website.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-3927246484437701016Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:10:00 +00002010-03-02T19:39:24.701-06:00other sportsEveryone is asking, will the NHL capitalize on the the popularity of USA vs Canada? And everyone is answering with a resounding "No!". I tend to agree. But the problem is that nobody is asking the right question. We all know nothing will change. The big question is: how does the NHL capitalize on the popularity of USA vs Canada?I was excited to find out that the first game back for both Sidney http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/03/nhl-versus-itself.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-4866200511541599756Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:32:00 +00002010-02-24T16:20:18.718-06:00NFLImagine the scene. Police walk in, they see the body of a man who has hung himself. A woman is bound and strangled to death. Then the body of a seven year old boy, strangled as well. It sounds straight out of a horror movie. This was the scene of the double murder-suicide committed by professional wrestler Chris Benoit. It's a story that is seen as the tipping point for experts and ex-athletes http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/02/sympathy-for-devils.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-2606256610936756655Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:02:00 +00002010-02-20T00:39:59.485-06:00other sportsThere's something interesting in the fact that the first big media event of the new decade was Tiger Woods' "apology". It will be one of those things that we look back at in 2019 and say, "Wow, that was ten years ago?" It already feels like Thanksgiving 2009, when this whole melee began, is in the far away past. But what is more telling than that, and what is the most frightening, is how the http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/02/woods-apology-was-enough-unfortunately.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-8469327072918015962Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:51:00 +00002010-02-09T18:52:30.703-06:00NCAA BBI will admit that I'm not too aware of what the fan bases are like in any towns not named Kansas City or Lawrence. Perhaps those who follow the Tarheels, Longhorns and Bruins act the same way as those who follow the Jayhawks. All I know is from my own experiences, so with that being said, this is what I know: criticism breeds winning.Last night's domination of Kansas over Texas was just that - a http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/02/when-high-standards-equal-wins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-7117832944202121073Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:26:00 +00002010-02-08T12:29:18.941-06:00Take a listen to the new sports podcast, Sports Sabbath. I co-host this new show, which is a weekly sports talk show every Sunday night. Recorded right after the Super Bowl.Sports Sabbathhttp://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/02/j-fish-on-sports-sabbath.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-379781538219089245Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:02:00 +00002010-02-08T00:29:30.063-06:00NFLA lot has been made of the plight of New Orleans. Katrina, the horrid history of the Saints, the city that was forgotten. That's why every non-Colts fan was rooting for them. But you can take all of that and throw it out the window, because the real reason we were all Saints fans for one day can be described in two words: Who Dat.Those words are ignorant. They are uneducated. They are words http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/02/americas-team.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-1742710672808353975Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:46:00 +00002010-01-30T08:50:31.330-06:00NBAAlright, probably not the most tasteful headline I've come up with. But Greg Oden's manhood is all over the internet, and damn, it bothers me. Not that he is hung like a genetically altered horse (he's a 7-foot black man, what did you expect?), but that he is getting so much crap from just about everybody. I say don't blame Greg Oden; blame the wretched bitch that posted it on the internet.We http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/01/importance-of-greg-odens-penis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-7627757315879840197Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:51:00 +00002010-01-27T16:17:49.346-06:00NCAA FBNFLFor me, the most important athlete of all time is Michael Jordan. He was the first superstar to brand himself, to go corporate. He inadvertently set the bar for every athlete after him. Since Jordan, the template to become a sports celebrity is to be as clean as possible and never take a stand on anything. Because of this, we pine for more athletes to have opinions on social issues. That is, of http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/01/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-3751437018285340005Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:10:00 +00002010-01-21T13:49:48.310-06:00NFLThe NFL needs to borrow the NBA's motto, "Where Amazing Happens". It doesn't make any sense for professional basketball. Good teams beat bad teams, the Finals are nearly set by February. The only thing amazing about the NBA is that the Nets have only won 3 games this season. That's as many games as the Jets have won in January alone. That's a football team, by the way.But the NFL never ceases to http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/01/sweetest-gig.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-3906516507001608284Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:23:00 +00002010-01-11T16:10:27.005-06:00NFLI wrote an article a few months ago laying out why baseball should be controlled, in nearly all forms, by a review booth. Balls and strikes, home runs, everything. And after the horrid refereeing during Sunday's Packers/Cardinals game, it got me thinking: should football be controlled from the eye in the sky as well?The answer is yes. And no. Let me explain. Here's what I wrote in terms of http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/01/big-brother-where-art-thou-part-two.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-6367115052069979208Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:38:00 +00002010-01-06T23:04:31.555-06:00NFLThe new Millennium has been pretty disappointing so far. No flying cars, no teleporting, no sex robots. The saddest thing is that the latter is closest to happening. None of the things I was promised as a kid have come true. So I look to something that's probably more fiction than any of those other fantasies. My wish for 2010 and the decade to come? Continuity.Seems simple enough, right? But http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2010/01/kansas-city-here-they-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-1238445218292680975Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:02:00 +00002009-12-27T23:58:55.420-06:00NFLI've been trying real hard to come up with a synopsis of the last decade. Whether it's trying to explain how tragic it is that Radiohead seems to be the defining band of the 00's or how the internet has born an age of amateurs, nothing seems to be really important enough to collect my thoughts. But just as the decade was wrapping, and time seemed to be dwindling, Jim Caldwell came into my http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/12/coach-of-decade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-5626062656483987844Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:19:00 +00002009-12-15T01:39:37.245-06:00NCAA FBIf there is one common trait amongst all American people, it may be the belief that anything that has been around for thirty years or more is here to stay. Yes, we can all agree that the Backstreet Boys and Sega Genesis aren't going to stand the test of time, because they couldn't even stand the test of a decade. But the Beatles and The Godfather cannot be argued; they've been culturally relevanthttp://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/12/dark-future-of-college-football.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-1687535811817119048Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:22:00 +00002009-12-10T22:53:44.199-06:00NBAI care about the NBA. I care about its growth and its future as a major American sport. I most certainly care about the integrity of the game, but I also understand that it is the most horrendously officiated sport there is. Make no mistake, while the MLB playoffs shed a light of fantastic incompetence, they can't even touch professional basketball when it comes to bad refs. I also like to read http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/12/book-you-should-read-but-i-wont.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-581162608431443556Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:48:00 +00002009-12-03T20:18:21.554-06:00NCAA FBAs I sat on my couch, smoking cigarettes and watching Killer Chimps is America (a great pregame to Oregon/Oregon State, by the way), my phone alerted me of of incoming text message. It was from a coworker of mine who also happens to be a Missouri fan. It read: "Mangino resigns."I just stared at the message, with perhaps a blink, took another drag and continued watching what is probably the http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/12/dirty-deeds-not-done-cheap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-1639292449898101984Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:23:00 +00002009-12-02T23:23:25.354-06:00other sportsThere are many reasons I love sports and follow it the way I do. For one, I am a compulsive gambler. I also have nothing better to do than own twenty different fantasy teams. But I used to think the main reason was because I love competition. Watching men in real time battle physically and mentally is like nothing else; it's pure reality. Well, unless you're watching baseball.But this whole Tigerhttp://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/12/us-weakly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-4057757064502230525Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:58:00 +00002009-11-27T23:28:17.122-06:00other sportsSometimes we get lucky. Like the time I accidentally put a $50 chip on 17 while playing roulette, and when that little white ball settled on my number, the dealer stood up, pointed at me, and yelled "DUDE!!!". Or the numerous times I've done karaoke and nobody had a video camera rolling. Luck happens even to the unluckiest of people.There's a lot of luck in sports, but mostly it's in the form of http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/11/lucky-stripes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-3376093192435864778Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:39:00 +00002009-11-24T00:14:09.197-06:00NFLI hate to reference the same book in one week, but sometimes writing has an effect on you that cannot be shaken for at least a month. Like the first time I read The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved, or the first time your daughter read Twilight.Some interesting points were brought up in Chuck Klosterman's Eating the Dinosaur. One of which is the parallels between football and conservatism.http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/11/thanks-for-tradition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-4421988329908806849Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:41:00 +00002009-11-20T00:27:37.405-06:00NCAA FBI'm not sure if there is a growing epidemic in Kansas, or if the problems I see stretch as far as the swine flu, but one thing is for sure: the wave of sensitivity in sports is absolutely pathetic. I just wrote about the crying over Chiefs coach Todd Haley's fondness for F-bombs. Now, it's Kansas Jayhawks coach Mark Mangino.We all know by now that Mangino repeatedly yelled at, berated, and put http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/11/mangino-isnt-problem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-7244304588590936735Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:06:00 +00002009-11-16T23:57:29.720-06:00NFLMonday morning in Kansas City was so very different, yet so much the same. The weather went from a sunny November to the cold, rainy winters I was used to as a kid. And just like the November Monday mornings of the 90s, the city would wake up fresh off a Chiefs win. But there were no feelings of hope, no optimism in the air. I woke up, turned on the radio, and all I heard was this: It's http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-than-words.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050889380479776960.post-8379383978223638111Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:48:00 +00002009-11-12T15:56:38.065-06:00NBAOne of the biggest frustrations in my daily life is trying to persuade my friends and family to watch the NBA. Somewhere between 99.9 and 100.00 percent of the people I know are fans of college basketball, yet have no desire to watch professional hoops. The majority of them have a valid reason: they're fans of Kansas basketball. Who wouldn't follow a team who has championship aspirations ever http://jfishsports.blogspot.com/2009/11/unimportance-of-coaching.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (J Fish)1