Email Author Sean Pendergast

2010 Stories by Sean Pendergast

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  Game Time: Michael Vick -- Why Can't You Just Be A Schnook Like The Rest Of Usr

  published Jul 01, 2010

  r"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill at the beginning of Goodfellas, when it was all about greed, excess, and privilege"Today, everything is diffe... More >>

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  Game Time: NBA Free Agency -- Watch Me Compare Daryl Morey to Bobby Baccala

  published Jun 30, 2010

  rOkay, let me get this out of the way... Daryl Morey knows what he's doing. In Daryl we trust! In Morey we trust! Daryl Morey is the NBA GM version of William Wallace with an undergrad degree fr... More >>

• Game Time: NBA Free Agency -- So Is Dwyane Wade Gonna Hold It For You While You Pee Too, LeBronr

  published Jun 29, 2010

  Nothing worth chasing in life comes easy, so to say that by pooling their collective talents together to try and chase an NBA title in Miami that LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade are taking t... More >>

• Game Time: 2010 World Cup -- I Am Darth Soccer

  published Jun 28, 2010

  If ever there were a sporting event that was tailor-made for watching in a sports bar with a room full of diehard fans, it's World Cup soccer.It's the one sporting event that takes a pretty easily gra... More >>

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  GAME TIME: NBA Draft: 8 Winners and 8 Losers

  published Jun 25, 2010

  r"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2010 NBA Draft..." -- David SternI'm not going to lie, those words give me a tingly feeling every year that I hear them. It never gets old -- like reruns o... More >>

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  Game Time: NBA DRAFT -- Worst Lottery Picks Of The Last 15 Years

  published Jun 24, 2010

  As "must see" events on the sporting calendar go, the annual NBA Draft is highly underrated. If you ask the average sports fan his or her five most watchable sports nights of the year you'll probably... More >>

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  Game Time: 2010 World Cup -- USA Wins! Now Awaits Conference Expansion Invite To Become Part of South America

  published Jun 23, 2010

  r"Soccer is about to cement its place as the worst 'sports bar sport' EVER..." -- Me at the 89-minute mark of the USA-Algeria game today"THIS IS AWESOME!!!" -- Me hugging strangers at the 91-m... More >>

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  Game Time: LeBron James -- A Lesson In Sales

  published Jun 22, 2010

  The older you get, the more you realize that ultimately every decision in life has a "sales" element to it. Getting married, getting divorced, having kids, purchasing a house or a car, choosing a mov... More >>

• Game Time: Tennessee Whiskey -- Jack Daniel vs Willie Wonka

  published Jun 21, 2010

  Having just returned from vacation literally about eight minutes ago, today's pearls of wisdom will not be sports-related (sports resumes in this space tomorrow). In my best efforts to derive some ... More >>

• Game Time: Kobe Bryant: One Down, One To Go (And Neither of Them Are You, LeBron)

  published Jun 18, 2010

  "I've got one more than Shaq." -- Kobe BryantThe accolades would seem to indicate that respect has not been an issue for Kobe Bryant -- the respect of fans, the respect of his peers, the respect of t... More >>

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  Game Time: The Longhorn Network -- A Few Programming Ideas

  published Jun 17, 2010

  rI often think how cool it must have been to have the first fast-food restaurant in a given town. You plunk down your McDonald's, start flipping about a thousand burgers an hour (quantity over q... More >>

• Game Time: USC Sanctions -- A Lesson in Media Logic (or Lack Thereof)

  published Jun 16, 2010

  If you take Brian Cushing's four-game suspension and Reggie Bush's single handed takedown of his alma mater's football program -- two of the biggest football stories of the last two months -- and go t... More >>

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  Game Time: College Football Realignment: FINAL PRS Ratings (Sort of)

  published Jun 15, 2010

  rAs the day began on Monday and rumblings of a last-second, desperation effort to keep the Big 12 together were beginning to gain traction, if the various schools involved had Facebook pages, th... More >>

• Game Time: Vince Young -- All He Does Is Win, Strip-Club Fistfight Edition

  published Jun 14, 2010

  rOkay, I give up. The topic of college football conference realignment has dominated the airwaves/Twitter/blog chatter the past two weeks, all the while the NBA Finals and now the 2010 World Cup... More >>

• Game Time: Texas A&M Trying To Break Off From Longhorn Entourager

  published Jun 11, 2010

  What started as a history lesson, in this space at least, on Monday is on the verge of becoming an historical shift in the world of collegiate sports. The college football gods dropped this mayhem in... More >>

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  Game Time: New Pac-10 ALREADY Making Southwest Conference Look Like The Ivy League (...and revised PRS rankings!)

  published Jun 10, 2010

  rThe winds of change yesterday went from cool breeze to Hurricane Tom (as in Osborne, as in "adios", as in "How's that taste, Kansasr"), with Nebraska apparently accepting an invitation from the... More >>

• Game Time: College Football: The New Pendergast Realignment Strength-O-Meter!

  published Jun 09, 2010

  In the third season of The Sopranos, just after Tony's nephew Christopher becomes a "made guy," there's a scene where shortly after getting his stripes officially, Chrissy is in the pizza parlor weari... More >>

• Game Time: Longhorns & Notre Dame -- The Last Two Independents

  published Jun 08, 2010

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  Game Time: College Football Realignment: A 2003 History Lesson

  published Jun 07, 2010

  rTo sit down and type up a piece about college football realignment, specifically the (choose one) maintaining of/realignment of/annihilation of the Big 12, knowing that said piece would be set ... More >>

• Game Time: Ken Griffey, Jr.: Baseball's Tracy McGradyr

  published Jun 04, 2010

  I'm not sure if the back-burnering of Ken Griffey, Jr.'s sudden retirement yesterday speaks more to the magnitude of the Jim Joyce/Armando Galarraga aborted perfect game fiasco or just how far the per... More >>

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  Game Time: Jim Joyce Cheats History And Disgarces Fu Manchu Wearers Worldwide

  published Jun 03, 2010

  r"It was the biggest call of my career, and I kicked the [bleep] out of it....I just cost that kid a perfect game." -- MLB Umpire Jim JoyceI'll admit, this is new territory for me. I mean, in my... More >>

• Game Time: NBA Free Agent Summit: The Four Horsemen Guide to 2010 Free Agency

  published Jun 02, 2010

  "The only time this much havoc had been wreaked by this few a number of people, you need to go all the way back to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" -- Arn AndersonAnd with that seemingly throwaw... More >>

• Game Time: Okay Rockets, It's Your Move In The "Summer Of Trying To Be Moderately Interesting" In Houston

  published Jun 01, 2010

  "Can you really not be aware we've been building a RICO case against Tony Soprano for five f**king yearsr And then you blow this popcorn fartr" -- Federal agent to local prosecutor in Sopranos episode... More >>

• Game Time: Roy Oswalt -- Is It Possible He's Pitching Just a Little Too Wellr

  published May 28, 2010

  Sending all of you off with a brief nugget to ponder as you begin your drunken, Memorial Day haze. Here goes....As of this morning, these are the things we know:1.) The Astros suck; they're 16-31, and... More >>

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  Game Time: Celtics, Feel Better -- Five Officiating Decisions That Were WAY Worse Than Kendrick Perkins' Second Technical

  published May 27, 2010

  It's funny, because I'm from New England, people automatically assume that I am a fan of all the Boston teams. To wit, last night as the Celtics were imploding in Orlando, my iPhone was blowing up wi... More >>