The Madden Curse: Made Up, Bad Luck, or Is There Something to It?
Opening Kickoff Imagine this. You just had one of the best seasons of your life. Maybe you won an MVP. Maybe you became one of the most recognizable players in football. Maybe millions of kids are wearing your jersey, screaming your name, and trying to recreate your highlights in their backyard. Then the phone rings…EA […]
The Masters Par 3 Contest: Golf’s Most Beautiful Bad Omen
Opening Kickoff Augusta National is supposed to feel magical. And on Wednesday before the Masters begins, golf’s most famous course briefly loosens its tie. The pressure drops. Families come inside the ropes. Children wear miniature caddie uniforms. Players laugh. Past champions return. Holes-in-one happen with almost suspicious regularity. It is one of the most wholesome […]
A Layman’s Guide to the NHL
The puck drops tonight. And somewhere months from now, after 84 regular-season games, four rounds of playoff hockey, bruises, broken sticks, overtime heartbreak, playoff beards, and probably at least one goalie temporarily becoming a supernatural being, somebody is going to lift the Stanley Cup. That journey starts now. The NHL’s 2026–27 regular season begins tonight, […]
A Layman’s Guide to the Canadian Football League: Football. Just a Little Different
Opening Kickoff Say “professional football” in the United States and most people’s brains go directly to one place. Fair enough. It is enormous. It has the biggest stars, the biggest television audience, the Super Bowl, fantasy football, RedZone, and enough weekly analysis to make third-and-seven feel like a matter of national security. But professional football […]
Viking Sports: Yes, the Vikings Had Game
Opening Kickoff In keeping with the Viking theme from yesterday, we have a very important question to answer: When the Vikings were not sailing across the North Atlantic, trading, farming, fighting, telling stories, or making England extremely nervous… what did they do for fun? They competed. Of course they did. Human beings have apparently always […]