Keeping it Real Sports

With the true NBA All-Star festivities kicking off tonight (let’s be honest, no one cares about the Rising Stars Challenge), let’s try some predictions for the winners (and MVP) of the events. Skills Challenge Big men have started to take over this event in recent years, and with Nikola Jokic participating there’s a real shot the guards walk away empty again. De’Aaron Fox will have to be considered, as he is the self-proclaimed “fastest guy in the NBA”, and Jayson Tatum is oo

Since this will most likely be my last post before the Postseason kicks off, I would like to run over my picks for all the awards in the MLB this season, including a possible revision to my earlier NL MVP pick. There may be some caveats in here, as the NL field is yet to be set, but for the most part each of these guys has (in my eyes) earned their hardware. MVP NL: Christian Yelich He’s had one of the best second halves in MLB history and it has propelled the Brewers right i

The AL MVP is sure to go to J.D Martinez, a man who will finish the season about as close as you can get to the Triple Crown without winning it. But what about the NL MVP? There has been a large group of players from the Senior Circuit who have certainly helped their respective teams, but which of them has done the most? This has been an evolving debate as the season has progressed, and with only two weeks left before the Postseason I’d like to make each player’s case. Freddi

Not only is the NBA season over, but the playoffs have already begun. The MVP debate for this year is James Harden by a lot and LeBron James in the background, and I just wanted to weigh in on what the MVP award means to me (not that my opinion really matters since I don’t vote, similar to my political views). What I see and hear around the sports world is that the MVP should go to the best player that season. The classic example is Mike Trout, a player considered by all in t

Oh Russell Westbrook. You sly dog. You knew this would happen all along, didn’t you? We were all just innocent bystanders witnessing the finessing of the ages going on behind our backs, slowly churning for a year then BAM! popping up in the public eye like another hurricane. Let us not forget the brains behind the operation, Thunder GM Sam Presti. I am well aware that one of my recent articles demolished rather than built up an NBA GM, but this one is quite different. I actua