With just three days to go in the Major League Baseball regular season, it’s best we take a look at the playoff picture before every team begins their final series of the year, which will end on Wednesday unless tiebreakers…
With money comes expectation. With money comes victory. And for the 2012 Yankees, money also brings extreme pressure. Yes, New York is the pressure cauldron of major-league baseball and all of its stars are scrutinised to the full, but this…
In 1979 an American classic infiltrated pop culture in the form of the film The Warriors. I can’t remember the year I first watched it but it would have been around the time my eldest brother was in his mid…
The wonderful thing about American-devised sports is that no one is really a loser until quite late in the season. In football and cricket, if you lose your first three or four games you’re probably in a pretty tight spot,…
When the Bolts emerged from the regular season as sixth seeds going into the playoffs, not many people saw them getting past the Pens (me included). After being 3-1 down to Crosby-less Pittsburgh, they showed great resilience and passion to…
