Interview w/ Jamar Taylor
Cleveland Browns corner Jamar Taylor’s skill set includes anticipatory reflexes, high football IQ, and inimitable tangibles that you don’t often see in most players. The former Boise State Bronco and Helix Highlander was a second round pick in the 2013 NFL draft, and, as of this year, will be playing on a highly rejuvenated and talented Browns team.
Undrafted
If there is a movie about baseball, I will watch it. It doesn’t matter if there are subplots, or even if it is in English, I am the built-in audience. Well, writer-director Joe Mazzello came up with a film that would test my resolve.
March Radness: Best in Basketball Films
America’s Finest City has a spotty record when it comes to basketball. San Diego State was robbed of a birth at the NCAA Tournament and ended up looking dominant in the NIT. Does college basketball really need two tournaments?
A Bat, a Ball and the American Dream
Spring training has begun, Ted Leitner is on the radio calling the games and my Padres have a new manager… I’m thinking Wild Card for my Padres this season.
Eddie the Eagle
The character of Edwards is brought together well enough, if not given the Forest Gump like progression from partially handicapped child to determined athlete with a bit of a developmental disability.
Church Bells & Peanut Shells
I thought of those times, as the new season approaches, and compiled a playlist of songs that make me remember all of that elation. All of those old kisses and distant friends.
Goon
Blades of Gory Starring: Sean William Scott, Liev Schreiber The beloved jack-o-lantern smile of the habitually goofy, snarky tongued Sean William Scott is nowhere to be found in Goon, the Sam-Peckinpah-on-skates hockey flick directed by Michael Dowse. Here, in the brutal world of minor league hockey, there are no ripcords or safety belts. The dusty landscape of westerns, where tumbleweeds amble by before a gunfight, are replaced with...
Moneyball
Archival Footage and Concentrated Brooding Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill Review written by Robert Patrick If I had said that there would be a movie released this year about sulking and computer screens, you would probably predict that the film was about a depressed teenager glued to his PC. Alas, the fog has lifted and instead it is about baseball and grown men. Michael Lewis, the author of The Blind Side, penned Moneyball, a movie...
The Fighter
Bale Good; Wahlberg Bad Starring: Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg Written by Robert Patrick Boxing movies always seem to contain a certain formula. This formula, like motor oil, helps the engine run better, more efficiently. You always need a woman, who apprehensively suggests that you should go for your goals, though she is quietly pulling out her nails as if her teeth were the claw of a construction hammer. Your character should also...
Sugar
They’ve All Come to Look for America Starring: Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino By Robert Patrick An empty bottle of coke lies knocked over, abandoned, lodged in the dirt and pointing nowhere. Beside the bottle, rows and rows of houses, the paint chipping and bubbling from the incessant beat of the sun, begin to look like rattlesnakes molting their skin. Sugar Santos (Algenis Perez Soto), practicing his fastball, slings his...
