Courtside Post

By Eric Goodman – Courtside Post Reporter

These aren’t my father’s baseball cards. And, having grown up in the sports card crazed world of the 1990’s, I can’t say these are necessarily my baseball cards either.

On Monday evening, a lucky gambler named Robert J. Power turned a nearly $9,000 profit on a Bowman Chrome superfractor 1 of 1 version of Washington Nationals rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg that he had purchased for $16,304 on May 29 from Ebay. While all that geeky superfractor talk might be confusing to the uninitiated collector, remember that baseball and business are all about the numbers and someone netted a nearly five-figure profit in one month’s time on a single product that they had already spent five-figures on.

Following his 183 game match against Nicolas Mahut, John Isner visited Dave Letterman to give the Top 10 thoughts he had during the record breaking match.
Hopefully he is enjoying his moment in the sun, he certainly earned it. However if he is to maintain his public profile the 6′9″ American will have to start winning [...]

By Spencer Loomis

After vowing to never miss another birthday of one of his children, Tiger Woods missed his daughter’s 3rd birthday while competing in the U.S. Open. He threw her a party after the fact to make up for it, but reportedly brought another woman with him.

By A.J. Puzzo

In the United Kingdom it’s called football and it powers a premier world economy through a nation’s fervor and love of the game. In Italy it is known as “calcio” and is defined by battle scars and broken limbs. But here in the States, where we refer to the beautiful game as soccer, it has been the Achilles’ heel of American sport for nearly a century. Soccer is the world’s game, and yet the United States, one of the world’s most formidably athletic and competitive nations, has never truly adopted it as one of its major pastimes.

By Raphael Perahia

I don’t want to talk about it. Don’t you dare even mention Heskey, or Rooney’s antics, or whatever the fuck is going on with John Terry. Like my dinner in Washington DC with the girl I haven’t seen in two years, who can only be described as “the one that got away… and then started dancing on the pieces of my broken heart”, I don’t want to talk about it.

by Raphael Perahia

I have been a little bit too busy enjoying what can only be known as the good life to replace time sitting by the pool in Pinehurst NC drinking a beer, for time spent in front of a laptop updating my blog (drinking a beer). It’s a tough life but somebody has to live it.

by Raphael Perahia

I arrived in Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson’s shit-hole of an airport last night, tired and hungry. Plane food continues to disappoint me, even though I keep lowering my standards. Like a poor strip club, or even the England national team, they never quite fulfill my dreams.

by Andres Romay

Most of us can agree that Manny Pacquiao is one of the worlds best pound for pound fighters. He proved it again a few weeks ago when he took on and beat Joshua Cottley taking his record to an impressive 51-3-2. Now he is going to take on a challenge that has defeated him before. Congress.

By Brittni Michaelis

Ben Roethlisberger, star quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, has been suspended for up to six games by the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.

By Brittni Michaelis

With the Masters just one week away, many are waiting in anticipation to see how Tiger Woods handles the spotlight and just how much his golf game has changed since taking a 3 month leave of absence from golf because of the startling revelations that the golfing great cheated on his wife, supermodel Elin Nordegren, with many, many women.