I have little stake in this fight, but (as a basketball fan) I think I’d prefer to have Nerlens Noel on my team.

What about Houston? If it becomes painfully obvious that Nene can’t hold down the fort with Capela out, it seems like they might want to trade for Noel. This could all be speculation (right now it is, at least)…

I appreciate how this article successfully navigates the difference between the Missouri and Minnesota boycotts. It seems like the issue of student athlete protests will only become more prevalent in the future, and it’s important to know that they’re not all the same. Like Sherman says, this is all such a mess. Ending the boycott is a very loud…

The Packers’ return to prominence feels inevitable — but it really wasn’t.

This team looked so bad in the Tennessee and Washington losses. Aaron Rodgers looked mostly like himself, but the defense couldn’t cover anyone, nobody could run, and the receivers couldn’t get open. I watched all of those games, and I was skeptical…

Joel Embiid’s potential (and immediate talent) is easily the best reason to watch Philadelphia at all this season. I’ve been thinking a lot about team-building, and all the different approaches to it. While teams like Atlanta and Memphis choose to hold on to current success with aging cores, Philly is finally starting to reap the benefits of the…

I am so here for the Tony Romo trade-stakes.

The football lover in me would love to see him go to Denver. He wouldn’t answer all the questions facing this team, but it would definitely be a start. Of course, this is all assuming that Dallas wants to trade Romo, but keeping him around to look sad on the bench just seems mean.

This article is a perfect example of why December/January football is so much fun. Every year, as a kid, I would start to pay so much more attention to the NFL in these months, especially during Wild Card Weekend and the Divisional round. I’m a huge fan of the Week 17 games that are really playoff games, and it seems almost guaranteed that…

The best sportswriting, is, at some level, storytelling. It’s part of why I write about various sports for various blogs — I just like telling these stories and knowing people are reading them. It’s part of why game seven of the NBA Finals was so great: no matter how it ended, it would be a hell of a story.

That Hawks game — just like their season—was a mess.

I watched that game from start to finish. I don’t want to overstate Dwight Howard’s importance to the team (Paul Millsap is still easily their best player), but that was the kind of game that his absence hurts the most in. Atlanta got absolutely murdered on the boards, and…