Posted in Sports, Thoughts on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Having mulled it over the day, I’m sure now. The MVP of the game was Strahan. They just felt compelled to give it to Eli because offensive skill players always get the spotlight. However, Eli’s two TDs would certainly not have been nearly enough without Strahan and company demolishing the New England offensive line and [...]
Posted in Sports, Weblogging on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m sitting in Sid’s Sports Bar on Jupiter Street in Makati. It’s 7am, and I just made it in time for the start of the broadcast. It’s not yet kickoff time.
I missed the Superbowl four straight years, usually due to work since the superbowl is on at early hours of the morning, differing a bit [...]
Posted in Film & TV, Sports on April 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Wouldn’t you know it. ESPN is running a bracket for the best baseball film of all time. The winner will be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, which is showcasing sports films. It’s all over here at Tribeca Film Festival-Baseball Poll Round 2.
All three of the films I wrote up are still alive in the [...]
Posted in Film & TV, Film Reviews, Sports on April 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Baseball season just kicked off, and I’m marking this event by revisiting some of the baseball films in my library. The first three I picked are fairly well-known and in the case of at least one of them, much-loved. Strangely, only one of these three films is *really* about baseball, and it’s the one that’s [...]
Posted in Film & TV, Sports on March 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve already addressed my man-crush on Bill Simmons’s writing on this weblog before. He does it again, but this time, he just quotes something that someone sent him. It’s another nexus between two of my interests - sports and film. And not just any film, it’s The Princess Bride that we’re talking about here!
Bill Simmons [...]
Posted in Sports, Thoughts, Writing on August 4, 2006 | No Comments »
Bill Simmons is perhaps the greatest sportswriter ever. The man is certainly one of my favorite writers, sports or not. He can take the most implausible comparisons and hammer out an article that makes the whole argument clear. Most importantly, the man writes with passion.
In this article, he compares the greatness of two Boston sports [...]
Posted in Sports on June 4, 2006 | No Comments »
When the Suns lost Raja Bell after that calf injury (he may have been on the court the last two games, but that wasn’t really him), it was all over. The Phoenix Suns are a tough team (no matter what the game they play looks like) with huge hearts, but there is simply no way [...]
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