In 2016 Colin Kaepernick was a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. Kaepernick was coming off three surgeries, one to his thumb, knee and season ending shoulder surgery. Prior to this season, Kaepernick led the 49ers to the super bowl in 2013 and the NFC championship in 2014. Injuries and a few down seasons […]
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How not to run an NBA franchise: The failures of the Magic Johnson and Phil Jackson regimes.
Magic Johnson is a Hall of Fame basketball player and considered arguably the greatest point guard of all time. After his basketball playing days were over, he became a very successful businessman. We consider Phil Jackson the greatest NBA Coach of all time with a record 9 NBA titles won as a head coach. Jackson […]
The hype of Sebastian Telfair
Reading Time: 5 minutes 30 seconds In August 2002, SLAM magazine put Lebron James and Sebastian Telfair on its cover. Both were high school basketball phenoms, and the heading read “the takeover.” Lebron has more than lived up to his high school hype and then some. Sebastian, on the other hand, although making it to […]
Chris Webber’s timeout
If you were a basketball fan in the ’90s, you’ve heard of the Fab Five. The Fab Five was a group of freshman basketball players (Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson, and Jimmy King) who composed the entire starting five for the University of Michigan Men’s basketball team. Starting five freshmen was relatively […]
Rick Pitino
In one of my sports feeds I read every morning, I saw that Rick Pitino won his euro league coaching debut. Yes, that same Rick Pitino who had Kentucky as one of the best college basketball programs in the nation in the ’90s and the same Rick Pitino who won two national championships with Kentucky […]
