January 2005 column extolling the virtues of a good beard.
Basketball
Two Cents: Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of an ABA Owner Gone Mad (2/2/2005)
The ABA (not that ABA) had a team in Nashville. This column details the real life soap opera involving a co-owner, the coach and a star player from the area.
Two Cents: Time to Reassess the Toronto Raptors…or Just Get Rid of Them (2/11/05)
This is a hot take of mine that hasn’t aged well from February 2005, about how the NBA should consider moving the Toronto Raptors.
Two Cents: NBA Regular Season Reaches Halfway Point (2/16/05)
Column reviewing my preseason prognostications during the NBA halfway point in February, 2005.
Two Cents: NBA’s All-Star Weekend Treat for Pro Hoops Fans (2/23/05)
Column from 2005 singing the praises of the NBA All-Star weekend.
Two Cents: The Numbers Don’t Lie, Heath Should Stay (3/9/2005)
Column defending Razorbacks’ basketball coach Stan Heath (and the Memphis Tigers’ John Calipari) from March, 2005.
Two Cents: Rejecting NIT Bid a Mistake for Razorbacks (3/11/2005)
(I worked as a Sports Editor from late 2004 until the summer of 2006. This is one of the many columns I was able to save that were originally published in The Sun-Times of Heber Springs, Arkansas.) All they had… Read More ›
Two Cents: NCAA Tourney Best Viewing Option (3/18/05)
Explanation on why the NCAA Tournament was a better viewing option than Congressional hearing on steroids from March, 2005.
Mikes Miasma of Miscellany 