Op-Ed
Keeping Score: The Death of Football
Football has long since surpassed both baseball and basketball as America’s pastime. With it’s ability to produce Olympic-level speed, dashes of twinkle-toe execution reminiscent of Baryshnikov and savage brutality normally reserved for pugilistic endeavors, it’s truly a...
Hip-Hop Exhibiting Punk Characteristics: What Does it Mean?
"There has always been this rebellious connection between hip-hop and punk music," once said iconic hip-hop pioneer Fab Five Freddy, in an interview with radio host Davey-D, back in 2010. It's true--nestled in the downtrodden streets of a 1980s Manhattan, a new relationship...
Gary Warnett: THE BEASTIE EFFECT
Just as some sites seem to have fostered Kitty Genovese syndrome on a global scale, with hordes more likely to whip out the phone to film before they’ll ever call for help, I’ve long felt that social media has a tendency to sustain grieving to the point where it simply...
Keeping Score: The Danger of Social Media in Sports
It was 1993 when Charles Barkley penned the infamous text for his now iconic Nike commercial where he proclaimed, “I am not a role model. I’m not paid to be a role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a...
Re(de)fining Print and the Resurgence of the Magazine
We’ve been observing the decline of print for a long time. Recently Encyclopedia Britannica officially stopped printing their sets of encyclopedias, and has dedicated themselves to the online medium. They’re now positioning their web presence as a more credible, and premium,...
Keeping Score: Casting the NBA Playoffs
Summer blockbusters and heart pumping NBA Playoff action seem to go together year after year as if the 16 teams themselves personified the scripts being pumped out of Hollywood - each with the chance to capture gold hardware and the attention of even the most casual fans thanks...
Traveling Light: The History of Danner and GORE-TEX
First things first, I recently was sent my own site as part of a press pack based on the assumption that something I’d written was some kind of advertorial for a brand. Fuck that. What’s the point of that stuff? This isn’t “placement.” I don’t play that PR mouthpiece...
Keeping Score: The Disappearance of the White-American NBA Superstar
As the Final Four draws closer and NBA teams look to solidify playoff positioning with the same scrappiness their younger counterparts use to cut down the nets with, it’s clear that the game of basketball is alive and well despite pay to play scandals and “super teams.” As...
Keeping Score: The Cost of Being an Athlete’s Wife
The life of a professional athlete is a dream for many little boys out there who have aspirations for million dollar contracts, a house with an infinity pool and a lady on his arm that dazzles like championship hardware. We start out playing cowboys and Indians – we end up...
Matters of Taste: Why Kanye West (the label) Matters
It has been a whirlwind few fashion weeks. Big names are playing hopscotch at historic houses - from Slimane replacing Pilati at YSL to Raf Simons stepping down at Jil Sander. Marketing continues to skew extreme with Burberry advancing their egalitarian “tweetwalk” social...
Keeping Score: The Beauty of March Madness
While the mark of spring doesn’t officially begin until March 20, many people would point to the rebirth of basketball’s greatest spectacle as the event that brings people out of the winter doldrums, whose grip was fiercely vicious this year after a delayed NBA start – and...
Keeping Score: The Anatomy of A Perfect Point Guard
The point guard controls the pace, movement and build of an NBA franchise as if a maestro for an orchestra, signaling blistering crescendos by simply holding up one finger in the air. Today more than ever, floor generals are being treated as centerpieces as opposed to...
Keeping Score: The Day Americans Rule Fútbol
While the NBA All Star Game is purely an exhibition - where dunks come fast and furious and the pace resembles that of a 4 x 400 relay instead of a 4th quarter 4:00 minutes to go slugfest, the athletic prowess at which the game’s elite play is further evidence that the United...
TECH
I’m slacking on blog updates because I just got back from NYC and I’m prepping to go on a stag weekend. I’m not used to actually living an existence — I’m more adept at forging one vicariously via the internet outside of everyday working hours, so it throws my...
Keeping Score: The Peyton Manning vs. Andrew Luck Debate
Finding a franchise quarterback in the contemporary NFL landscape is not simply at the top of a general manager’s checklist, it is the list. As the league enacts more and more rules that protect the quarterback, and allow receivers to run freely down the middle with little...
