Sunday morning, I woke up earlier than usual, and decided to take advantage of this extra time and do laundry. I got ready, threw on my Buffalo Bills sweatshirt, Bills earrings and jeans, and beat the crowd to my local Allston laundromat by all of five minutes. I snapped up my three washers, started my [...]
Posts under ‘sports culture’
Dear The Sports Hub: Please, Just Hire a Woman.
Dear 98.5 The Sports Hub,
You were quite the topic of conversation on Tuesday, appearing literally out of nowhere with the sudden morning announcement of the demise of WBCN. With your August 13th arrival, Boston will be home to four sports radio stations – fitting really, given that Boston is the capital of obsessive sport fandom.
Before [...]
On the HLOG: Why All the Hockey Fan Girls Are Going to Hate Me
I couldn’t keep my mouth shut about this Club Scarlet controversy, so I wrote a piece on the HLOG about it. A piece that will probably get me blacklisted by angry female hockey bloggers. Oh well – as someone who essentially markets events and initiatives towards 18-23 year olds for a living, I feel for [...]
They Hate Me: Western NY’s Toxic Back and Forth Relationship with Basketball
Pravin commented earlier this week on my treatise on New York State sports fandom with a great question on basketball in Western New York:
And where does basketball fit into all of this? Is there a particular team that people in Western New York prefer to root for? I’d imagine that the Knicks–not even factoring in [...]
To Buy a Jersey, To Not Buy a Jersey
Brief note before I begin – I may be the only person on Wordpress not writing a blog post on Sarah Palin today. Logging in just now, every single post on the Wordpress front page was about her Saturday Night Live appearance last night. Come on, Bloggers of the World, stop copying one another.
(And yes, [...]
