Dan McKinley : Sports

Online Sports Journalism Audition

posted Saturday, January 28, 2006 6:54 AM by mcfunley with 2 Comments

I'll admit, I personally prefer complete sentences, paragraphs, and attempted grammar. But, I thought I would try to write a "column" that is nothing but a long, bulleted list since this approach seems to be working for the so-untalented-he's-talented Read More

The Curse of Siragusa

posted Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:10 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Tony Siragusa is the nuclear option in Fox Sports' ongoing war against dramatic pause. Every Sunday he roves the sidelines ensuring that even the slightest moment of dead air is filled with sense-dulling stupidity. "I love coming to Cleveland because Read More

Cry Me a River, Stupid Ohio

posted Monday, January 09, 2006 9:10 PM by mcfunley with 2 Comments

For a decade and a half, I was aware of exactly two Bengals fans.ESPN personality and all-around good guy Dan Patrick.A very irate patron of St. Mark's Ale House in New York City. This guy had positioned himself in a wooden chair in the center of a crowded Read More

A Plea for Change in Sports Commentary

posted Saturday, December 03, 2005 8:49 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Here is one football statistic that I never want to hear again:Team X is 40-0 when they have someone rush for 100 yards. The conclusion you are supposed to draw is that Team X should try to run the football. Here's one way you could rephrase the statistic:Team Read More

A hoy-hoy, Reprise

posted Saturday, November 26, 2005 10:16 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I've been operating this site for over a year now, so it is finally time to reflect on just what, exactly, it is all about. The author of a technical website is always walking the all-too-fine line between obscurity, respectability, and complete whoremanship. Read More

Hammer Hank Goldberg

posted Sunday, November 20, 2005 8:16 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

If 8:50 on Monday night--the "JACKED UP" NFL Primetime segment--is the best five minutes of television all week, then I think there are really only two contenders for the worst. That sycophant Michael Irvin's weekly fawning human interest story Read More

It's pronounced 'Theese-man'

posted Sunday, November 06, 2005 12:12 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Joe Theismann on the T.O. situation, ladies and gentlement. Surely, prose such as this would be the envy of Dickens and Kipling. I'm not sure who would want Owens, though. He's thrown Jeff Garcia under the bus and waited for the buses to line up Read More

A Macroeconomic Theory of Texas Holdem

posted Saturday, July 16, 2005 3:29 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I am having a banner day as an intellectual, it being no coincidence that my television is currently broken. I could take this excellent opportunity for creative output to bemoan yet another unfathomably stupid government-funded “power of prayer” Read More

Playoffs

posted Monday, January 03, 2005 7:20 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Article by Len Pasquarelli. I found this really interesting. ...statistically at least, the AFC bracket is the best since the league adopted the current 12-team format in 1990. The six AFC qualifiers have a combined 73 victories... The 59 aggregate Read More

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