For the duration of the the NBA Playoffs, Barnstormer regular Alex Wong will be answering questions lobbed at him by the editors. In this, the first installment, Wong talks Amar’e, George Karl, and Durant without Westbrook. Can the return of Amar’e Stoudemire be a good thing for the Knicks? By all accounts, it...
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RUNNING INTO AN ATHLETE can be a strange, exhilarating, but ultimately irrelevant encounter. In the most simplistic way of thinking, it’s kind of cool. But think too long or start to write about it and, well, you realize there’s no meaning to these run-ins at all. They just serve to remind you how far...
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ANOTHER REGULAR SEASON starts tonight for the Toronto Blue Jays, and in a sense, it means that a 73-win team returns in search of their first playoff appearance since 1993. That’s the matter-of-fact way of looking at the 2013 season, but surely after the excitement of the off-season and all the hoopla and buzz,...
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“Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skillful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.” – Bob Marley WHEN BOB MARLEY used to tour, he would demand that there was ready access to a football field at all...
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Alex Wong’s Super Bowl Preview 1. This Weird Plane The Super Bowl itself exists in this weird plane that no other sporting event ever reaches. Once the conference championship games end, football becomes something else entirely. We – sports fans – have to share the culmination of entire season with them – anyone who...
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So this is 2013, eh? Not so good if you’re a triskaidekaphobic. I’m still dating my cheques 2012. I mean, they’re all going to bounce anyway, so why tempt the Gods, amirite? Well, we’ve got the NHL back. And you know the NHL is back, because the Leafs did something that redefines moronic in...
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