Pacifist Viking

I believe that too much focus is placed on championships when evaluating individual players. Certainly great players elevate their games in...

My favorite day of the year is the opening Sunday of football. Alas, the Vikes don't even play until Monday at 6:00 central. I'll ...

Some friends and I have been discussing ways to turn our impending fantasy football draft into a drinking game. Here are some other rules I...

Here's the question: how many NBA players have won NBA championships within their first three years AS THE BEST PLAYER ON THEIR TEAMS? I...

I believe Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest individual athlete in the history of American team sports--and it's not even close. Let'...

Very few things get the three exclamation points from me. At most, I usually give a sarcastic single exclamation point for things that aren...

Allow me to diverge from my usual remarks on sports to take on a different subject. As readers here know, my summer is technology depraved....

When people discuss the all-time great RBs, usually there's Jim Brown, then a bunch of players from the 1970s and later. I'd like t...

The wide-eyed shock The player looks about with gigantic eyes, in utter shock, as if in total disbelief that anybody could make such an outr...

No internet, no cable, no idea about anything. This is happening at the right time of the year. The NBA Finals will be on ABC, so I can wat...

I'm making a transition to a poorly informed sports fan. I'm going to go without cable for a while and see how that treats me (for ...

Is modern, urban man disconnected from the patterns of nature? Rural people had (and have) a close connection to the cyclical nature of the...

Beards seem to be in fashion. Around campus I seem to notice them more. There's been some commentary about bearded basketballers in th...

Favre sucks because Favre refuses to adapt his game for any reason. That's it. According to Bob McGinn (via PFT): Telling his story f...

Tim Duncan is listed as a power forward (Basketball-reference lists him as a F-C, but most people talk about him as a forward). He is, by ...

You know when somebody goes through something really bad, and he/she says something like "I wouldn't wish this on anybody," or...

1996-97: Glen Rice I always thought Glen Rice was a fun player to watch, and in 96-97, he burst out with an incredible season. Take away ...

I haven't really paid much attention to the Fran Foley resume debacle. All I really care about is that the Vikings win a Super Bowl in ...

Just about everything that can be said about the Texans drafting Mario Williams has been said. But a moment ago a memory, a revelation, spa...

In Dr. Z's draft report card , he writes: Do you know what's the most unfair tactic used by we journalistas? Ripping some team's...