After almost a month of play, the World Cup final is set.  The Netherlands in all of their orange clad glory will take on Spain for the right to hoist the World Cup. Neither team has ever played in the World Cup final, but that will all change on Sunday afternoon (2:30 pm EST) LIVE [...]

The World Cup is now only a little over two days away. The host nation, South Africa, will take on Mexico in the opening game on Friday Morning at 10 am EST. The only other Friday game will be Uruguay against France at 2:30 pm EST. For many American soccer fans, the World Cup will [...]

The World Cup is less than a month away and I am getting more and more excited by the day. I’ve said it in the past, but I seriously, there is no sporting event in the world I would rather go to than the World Cup. Not the World Series, not the NHL finals and [...]

The 2010 NHL playoffs are underway after Ottawa defeated Pittsburgh, Phoenix beat Detroit, Philadelphia upset New Jersey and Colorado found a way to silence San Jose last night. Tonight is the second night of the postseason. Buffalo and Boston, Montreal and Washington and Los Angeles and Vancouver all begin their series’. Check your local listings [...]

  A new season is upon us, but it feels like it was only a few weeks ago when Sid the Kid and the Pittsburgh Penguins pulled the ‘ol switcheroo and beat Niklas Lidstrom and the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 a year after losing 4-2 to the same squad. Evgeni Malkin was the MVP of [...]

This is the second installment of “The Week in Sports”. I’m excited to once again give you the scoop on the world of sports. Honestly, feel free to lay back and not watch SportsCenter at all during the week, I’ll hook you up. I’ll set you up with all the information you need. So, let’s [...]

With two games of the NHL finals in the books, it’s time for the customary “everything we thought was completely wrong” overreaction column. Here are three things we learned over the weekend: Defense really does win championships. Sometimes things become clichés for a reason. The Red Wings and Penguins – two of the NHL’s most [...]

It’s a rematch of last year’s finals as Pittsburgh and Detroit battle for the Stanley Cup starting on May 30th. This is the first Finals rematch since the 83-84 season. Last season, the Red Wings used timely goals and stout defense to defeat the Penguins 4-2 in the best of seven series. This year, they’ll [...]

To hockey fans, there is nothing in the sports world to compare to playoff hockey. Granted this is the same demographic that popularized the “mullet” as an acceptable hair style. But hockey fans also have a peculiar level of arrogance that leads them to believe that one game, one playoff game, is all that need [...]