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Arsenal FC – Arsene Wenger Can’t Leave as a Failure
Each season has its own goals an ambitions, and Arsenal, as strange as that sounds, have been lowering their standards with every passing year. Arsene Wenger is a big part of that “tradition”, as the club becomes more and more about ending the season with an impressive profit line, instead of trying to compete for titles or the best players available on the market. If Santi Cazorla is the best this club can find, it means someone is doing something wrong.
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Champions League – Barcelona vs Bayern Munich Predictions
Miracles happen once in a while, and the final minutes of the other semifinal suggests that anything can almost happen, but it seems quite unlikely that Barcelona will be able to turn around the result Bayern Munich bestowed upon them a week earlier, not to mention the Germans being the better team.
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Borussia Dortmund – Marco Reus & Robert Lewandowski in a Goalless Masterclass
Looking at most of the match, and not the early ten minutes or the closing as well, Borussia Dortmund forced their will and their style on the match at the Santiago Bernabeu, even without Mario Gotze, leaving early due to an injury. Robert Lewandowski did everything right except for the final shot, and the same goes for Marco Reus, winning every one on one battle he had with failing and falling defenders.
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Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo Doesn’t Show Up for Jose Mourinho
After getting knocked out of the Champions League in the semifinal stage for a third consecutive time, the comments made by Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho after the match seemed to grab more headlines than the match itself, which turned out to be another failure for a team that should have done a whole lot more over the past few seasons.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Can’t Complete a Remontada (Real Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund)
The better team made the final of the Champions League, despite the late drama caused by goals from Karim Benzema and Sergio Ramos. Cristiano Ronaldo never showed up, possibly not completely fit for this kind of match, and Real Madrid didn’t do enough for long enough to beat a team that was once again their superior.
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Best Returning Players in College Basketball
While most of the talk heading into the 2013-2014 college basketball season will probably be about the insane Freshman class, the returning players who chose to spend another year in college instead of trying their luck in the NBA draft is filled with quality, including Doug McDermott, Marcus Smart, Russ Smith and the Michigan group.
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Underachieving Teams With Hope in 2013 MLB Season
One month means nothing in baseball, but after about an eighth of the season behind us, it’s safe to say that the Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and the San Diego Padres are the most disappointing teams up to this point, although it doesn’t mean there isn’t a chance of a comeback.
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Los Angeles Lakers – What’s Next?
No matter what kind of mutterings you’ll hear, the Los Angeles Lakers failed in the 2012-2013 NBA season, barely making it into the playoffs and getting swept in the first round. Kobe Bryant will be back eventually, hopefully not too far from his ability from before the injury. The biggest decisions for the Lakers remain with re-signing Dwight Howard, keeping (or not) Mike D’Antoni while making up their minds about the future of Pau Gasol, Metta World Peace and Steve Nash.
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Miami Heat Can’t Lose With Chris Andersen Playing
There’s a good chance that Chris Andersen is the most underpaid player in the NBA, solely due to the fact that since signing with the Miami Heat in the middle of the 2012-2013 season, they’ve hardly been losing, especially when the Birdman is getting more than just negligible playing time.
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Negative Reactions to Jason Collins Announcing He’s Gay
Among all the praise that Jason Collins has gotten for being the first active player in one of the four major American professional team sports to announce that he is gay, there were a few famous athletes, head coaches and writers that didn’t really support him, including Mike Wallace, Larry Johnson, Mark Jackson and Chris Broussard.