Mitch Blum

The so-called experts will tell you that picking football games comes down to understanding schemes and match-ups. They’ll break down the magical “coach’s film” to identify tendencies and weaknesses. Then they’ll make their picks and still get more than half of them wrong.
I, on the other hand, am one of the last honest prognosticators in [...]

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Introducing…the World Cup
Every four years, like clockwork, the non-U.S. portion of the world re-commences their long-standing crusade to teach Americans about football, allegedly the world’s most popular sport. So desperate are our Euro-African-Asians friends to convince us of football’s greatness that they created an international tournament called the World Cup with the sole [...]

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If you’re like me, you grew up in the 1970s idolizing Pete Rose and rooting for the Reds, then moved to Boston when you were 15 and adopted the Red Sox as your team. In the subsequent 20-something years your love for the Sox has only deepened but your problem is the obnoxious Yankee fan [...]

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As a sports expert of sorts (and by “of sorts” I mean “not at all”) I often find myself thinking long and hard about the future of two professional sports leagues that I care little about: the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR).
(For the record, my order of [...]

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While traditionally reserved for children and actual pro athletes, we’ve watched with some interest over the last few years as the sports jersey has assumed an unanticipated level of acceptability in American adult wardrobes from coast to coast. Dare we suggest that the sports jersey has become somewhat fashionable?
In just two short weeks we’ll hit [...]

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If you’re like me, one of your biggest regrets in life is that you never made it as an Olympic athlete. And even though you stink at sports, find the Olympics kind of boring and are afraid of angry old Romanian men, nothing can stop the dream of standing on the ceremonial riser, collecting a [...]

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Gather round, ladies, as I take yet another journey into the minds of men everywhere and expose some of my gender’s dirty little secrets. Please use this powerful information responsibly. My goal is merely to enhance understanding between the sexes and I do so at great personal risk.
With baseball season underway, hockey and basketball heading [...]

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I’ve never read the book “Fight Club,” nor have I seen the movie.  Nonetheless, I’m well aware of the fact that the first rule of fight club is that there is no fight club.
That’s my first problem.
Recently, a building in the picturesque New England town where I reside underwent a minor transformation.  What was previously [...]

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