tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77871880469289826822011-11-27T15:50:25.521-08:00The ultimate classic sports blog and discussion. Retro Sports Talk is for those classic sports fans who like sports the way they were in the good old days. If you like ESPN classic you'll love this old school site. No more spread offense, dribble motion, or designated hitter. Bring back the classic feel with the high five, the wishbone and vintage uniforms. So Bring your old school attitude and lets talk classic sports...because old school is still cool.Coachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10414904072392036534noreply@blogger.comBlogger561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7787188046928982682.post-24753126822225342612009-07-28T09:24:00.000-07:002009-07-28T12:31:23.144-07:00

The Designated Hitter needs to go. If the National League had the designated hitter we never would have witnessed Manny Ramirez's heroics. Ramirez in a pinch-hitting role (for the pitcher) hit a game changing grand slam in the Dodger's 6-2 victory over Cincinnati. This hit not only won the game but put Manny behind only Lou Gehrig on the all-time grand slam list. All this came about because the

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J.P. Losman of the Buffalo Bills will attempt to do something that few others have been able to do - revive his quarterbacking career via another league. Losman plans on playing in the UFL as a starting quarterback rather than wait his turn in the NFL. Very few QB's have played in another league and then had success in the NFL. The most recent quarterbacks to do it are Kurt Warner (Arena) and

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Tom Watson is what makes sports great. I know that he is not going to win the British Open but to even be in contention at 59 years old is amazing. Golf may be boring to watch without Tiger in the hunt but Watson has been able to provide what every sports fan needs once in a while; an unlikely hero. We would not have remembered this final day of the British Open had it not been for Watson.

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In 1 minute and 43 seconds David Stern gave Seattle fans hope; hope that Seattle will once again have an NBA team. Steve Kelley, a writer for the Seattle Times, put Stern on the spot about a future team in Seattle. A new franchise in Seattle can only be a positive step for the league. Seattle is a great place for the NBA and I am not just saying that because I live in Seattle. I don't wish to

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So Ted William's All-Star game record will live for a another year as Albert Pujols let history down by going 0 for 3 with an error (ouch). The good news is that I was 5 for 6 on my historical predictions:1. The game finished 4-3 keeping with the trend of All-star games being close.2. The American League won AGAIN.3. A total of 16 pitchers were used and only 2 pitchers threw more than an inning.4

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So what can we expect from this years MLB All-Star Game? Based on history, we can expect the following:1. A close game47 All-Star games have been decided by 2 runs or less.2. Many pitchers The average number of innings for an All-Star pitcher is about 1.53. An American League Victory The American League has won 17 of the last 21 games4. A quality player will be snubbedDifficult to get over 60

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You gotta love late night TV. Last night I was treated to something very special that should never be forgotten. ESPN Classic was discussing the greatest boxing match ever: The 1985 Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler fight. "The War" as it was called only went 3 rounds but provided more entertainment then any boxing or UFC match you will ever see these days.This middleweight bout was an all out war

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Spokane Washington's Hoopfest, the biggest 3 on 3 basketball tournament in world with over 6,000 teams is a great illustration that your never to old to ball it up. If you walk down the street at Hoopfest you will see a multitude of over aged men throwing their bodies around trying to re-live their glory days. How do I know, because I was one of those over the hill guys trying to show that I

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Is technology ruining sports?Each year some new modern gadget comes out that is said to revolutionize the way the game is watched and each year the sports fan loses the one thing that makes sports exciting; the debate. Baseball's new modern revolution is now upon us with a statistical software that "will record the exact speed and location of the ball and every player on the field". The software

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The greatest basketball team to ever be assembled is again making headlines. The original "Dream Team" of the 1992 Olympics will be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in August. The "Dream Team" was without a doubt the best U.S. basketball team to ever set foot on foreign soil as they dominated their eight opponents by an average of 44 points. Show me another team in any sport

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The UFL (United Football League) just held its inaugural draft with a few familiar names among those drafted and more familiar names (Brooks Bollinger, JP Losman and Chris Perry) to come after training camp. Every time a new football league pops up and I see some players that I recognize I get really excited only to be disappointed when the season begins. I can't stop comparing them to my

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With basketball season over and football still months away baseball is now the game to watch, but this traditional old school fan just can't bring himself to do it. I like the finer points that baseball offers but I can't stand the way the game has changed. The game of baseball has changed since I was a youth and not for the better. It has actually become difficult for me to watch . Bring back

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Does acquiring an aging star bring success? The Cleveland Cavaliers attempt to find out as they traded for the aging 37 year old Shaquille O'Neal. The Cavs believe that by pairing up young and old, that elusive title will be within their grasps. Cleveland will try and follow in the footsteps of last year's NBA champs, the Boston Celtics. The Celtics used this formula by acquiring 31 year old

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As I surfed the web the other day, I came across the NBA commercial slogan that states: "The NBA: where amazing happens". Now to most that would mean that the players in the NBA are amazing...but I see it a little different. I see it to mean that in today's NBA, its amazing that the refs don't call more travels. It is truly amazing!The players today are getting away with more and more as the

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Just a couple of days ago, I posted about my favorite posters of all-time not knowing that my post would be an honor to the late Farrah Fawcett. Farrah past away today at 62 ending her long bought with cancer. As I mentioned in my post, Farrah defined a generation of young boys who had her red one piece swimsuit ingrained into their minds. Her poster (the top selling poster of all-time) along

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Does Ricky Rubio remind you of anyone? Does his no-look passes look familiar? Does his stutter step hesitation dribble bring back memories? Even his floppy hair and gangly arms takes me to a time of yest er year. It all looks so familiar. I got it...Ricky Rubio is the modern version of "Pistol" Pete Maravich.Take a look:Ricky RubioPistol PeteThe comparisons don't just stop at the highlight reel.

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Do kids today have sports posters on their walls or are they too busy text messaging and playing video games? Are sports posters still as popular today as they were when I was growing up? If they are, I can only imagine the walls of today's generation:A poster of Alex Rodriguez and Roger Clemons titled: "The Stash Brothers"A poster of Michael Phelps titled: "The Weed Man"A poster of Michael Vick

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I wake up to Howard Cosell and Mel Allen discussing my blog on the top 5 bad boys gone bad. I sit up to see my wife and my little 8 month old son in their throwback "Ice Man" jerseys ready to serve me breakfast in bed. As I wipe the gravy from my chin (biscuits and gravy can be messy), I glance at the sports section of the newspaper to see the following headline: "Larsen pitches perfect game in

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With the NBA finals behind us..congrats to the Lakers, we can now turn our attention to a draft that should be interesting. Interesting in the fact that it just might be one of the worst draft classes ever. If the top 3 players taken in a draft are any indication of the success of the class, then 2009 will be one for the ages.Let us analyze the most likely top 3 picks with similar players from

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Each year my buddies gather around a table full of pizza and begin planning thier annual college football trip. As avid Washington Husky football fans (I know but at least they are not Cougars), they look at the Husky schedule and figure out what away game they want to attend. In the last couple years they have made the trip to see Ohio State and Notre Dame, both Husky losses, but thats okay

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With the signing of Nick Montana (Joe's son) by the Washington Husky football team and then the arrest of two Washington State football players last week, we once again see the Huskies sitting on top and the Cougars in the dawg house. The Huskies were the worst team in college football last year and the Cougars were a close second, but with this major signing and two major arrests we see one

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If you are a true Retro Sports Talk fan then you will love ESPN's John Hollinger and his All-time NBA Franchise Rankings. Talk about putting in some research, this article takes every NBA franchise and ranks them according to certain factors and accomplishments. He gives points for some factors and takes away points for others. Hollinger is known for his statistical analysis and it shows. After

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As Phil Jackson sets his sites on another NBA title and a Hall of Fame induction, Greg Popovich goes about his duties getting very little respect. If you asked 100 people on the street what Greg Popovich did for a living, I bet you less than 67 percent (Popovich's win percentage) of the people couldn't tell you. Why is Greg Popovich never mentioned amongst the all-time great coaches? Why is his

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I have never been more angry at my sister then when she (without my permission mind you) took and opened a sealed pack of 1981 TOPPS Football Cards just to eat the gum. Can you believe that? She was only four at the time but who cares, that pack could have contained a Joe Montana rookie card worth well over $250? Didn't she know that an unopened pack is worth way more than an open pack? What if

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I ran across an interesting article on the merits of Omar Visquel being inducted into the Hall of Fame. The author makes a case for Visquel comparing him to other shortstops that have made the Hall. I will agree that Visquel is as good, if not better, than most of the shortstops that have made the Hall of Fame and that he is one of the best in the field but that does not mean he should be

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After watching a high school pitcher in Washington pitch 10 innings and then recently reading in Sports Illustrated about the University of Texas pitcher Austin Wood pitching 12 innings it made wonder why we don't see complete games in the majors anymore. The starter is one of your best pitchers and with all the technology and training available, you can't tell me that pitchers today are not in

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My wish list for the summer is for hot weather, a great tan, and the reuniting of Larry Brown and Allen Iverson. Nothing would make me happier then to see those two back together again, bickering and ballin' all the way to the middle of the standings. We all remember Iverson and his idea of practice with Larry Brown.Wouldn't it be fun to have one more go around. If the summer brings anything hot

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Dwight Howard has led his team to the NBA finals and is almost unstoppable when he gets in the paint. He has made the All-NBA 1st team, the All-Rookie team, the All-Defensive team and now he is a part of the All-NBA Commercial team. His hilarious ad for Vitamin Water ranks as one of the best NBA commercials ever.Here is my All-NBA Commercial TeamPG Penny Hardaway (Lil Penny)SG Michael Jordan (

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One thing NBA history has shown us is that people love to watch the Lakers. It doesn't matter if its the "Showtime" Lakers, the "Shaq" Lakers or the "Kobe" Lakers they all get respect. TV ratings go through the roof when the Lakers take the floor for those final seven games. Maybe its the celebrities or maybe its the style of play, all I know is that the NBA makes out like bandits when the Lakers

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Randy Johnson is about to win his 300th career game and become one of only 23 other major league pitchers to do so, but looking at the list he just doesn't fit in. Yeah, I know he was one of the most dominating pitchers of the 90's and has proven to be extremely durable over his 22 year career but he still does not fit in. Yeah I know he is the greatest strikeout artist of all-time, he won 4 ERA

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With Major League Baseball's June 9th amateur draft fast approaching, Stephen Strasburg will have a tough test ahead of him. Strasburg has scouts drooling over his 100 mph fastball and he should be the 1st pick in the draft but questions still remain. Can Strasburg buck the odds and become the 1st pitcher to be drafted #1 that actually became a bonifide star in the league? No other pitcher that

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They walked the athletic battle field with intensity in their eyes as fear washed over their opponent's faces. These bad boys of sports intimidated their way to stardom. But oh how far we have come, to the day, when these once menacing and scary men are now just soft and mushy entertainers. These 5 men have taken their bad boy image and made it into something unique. From the ballet to the WNBA,

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"Boy could he scramble", my dad use to say over and over about his favorite player of all-time Fran Tarkenton. "But dad could he pass?", "but dad did he ever win a Superbowl?", "but dad didn't he throw 32 interceptions in one season?" "dad don't you think Tarkenton is overrated?" He would pause a moment and then reply, "yeah...but boy could he scramble." Fran Tarkenton was possibly one of the

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I have officially seen it all...a scratch and niff baseball hat. I guess chewing gum, seeds and tobacco is no longer good enough to keep a players attention between pitches, we now need something to smell. 10 years from now the makers of this hat will saying "what in the heck were we thinking". I just hope we don't have a turn-back-the-clock night where everything is old school scratch and niff (

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NFL Network reached an agreement to be a part of Comcast's packaging a couple of weeks ago so I decided to give the Network a try and see what all the fuss was about. I figured I wasn't really missing anything especially since Thursday night football is like Tuesday night church service...it doesn't feel right but you gotta participate. So I flip to it and guess what, I was hooked. Besides the

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After watching a high school baseball game this weekend I noticed a trend that was quite disturbing; players were wearing their baseball hats with FLAT bills. When I was growing up this was not acceptable. You curved your hat or looked you like a dork. The curved bill looks stylish, helps keep sun out of the corners of your eyes and allows you to narrow your focus. This new flat bill trend is

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Bill Simmons first coined the term "inliers" is his hilarious article-email exchange with best selling author Malcolm Gladwell called "Curious Guy" (a must read). He called an "inlier" as an athlete that if in another era could have made a huge impact. He tabbed Larry Holmes and Nick Faldo as "inliers" because if they were in another era they may have reached total stardom...like Ali or Palmer.

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Okay I have had it...the ankle injury...is there no way to stop it:Headline: Ankle injury always a pain for Williams Headline: Walton out with injured ankleHeadline: Chandler sits out with ankle injuryHeadline: Yao Ming's Foot Injury Breaks Houston Rockets'DreamHeadline: Howard leaves playoff game with ankle injuryNothing worse then watching the star player limp to the bench in a playoff game

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The NBA has been voting on an all-star team for over 50 years now. Each team represents the best of the best that year. But which all-star team is the best ever? There have been many talented ones like the 1989 team or the 1997 team but I don't think there is a better group then 1962 all-stars.This 62' team consisted of:F: Elgin BaylorAveraged: 38 ppg/ 18.6 reb/ 4.6 ast F: Bob PettitAveraged: 31

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In my previous post I posed the question of which style would win, the new style of play or the old school. So I put it to the test in a 7 game series simulation in which the 2009 1st team all stars went against the 1989 1st all stars. I used the "What if Sports" simulation engine to play the games (note: I filled out the rosters with the 2nd team all stars for each year).Here are the results:

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Last night I played in a high school staff vs student basketball game where 17 old and out of shape men and women beat a group of 7 young varsity basketball players. The youngsters were no match for the physical, fundamental, and team brand of basketball that the old schoolers threw at them. This made me think, Is the old school style of player better than the new school style of player?So I

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36 home runs in first 10 games...a major league record. The new Yankee stadium is yielding a record number of home runs so far this year and has pitchers pulling their hair out. The new stadium is ruining the great tradition of classic Yankee baseball by turning baseball games into home run contests. In a 22-4 loss the Yankees saw 6 home runs leave this new high tech ball park. Analysts are using

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I am sad to write another post about an all-time great passing away. Chuck Daly will be remembered as a coach with an ability to mold different personalities into champions. His Detroit Piston teams of the 80's and 90's were some of the best ever. Dennis Rodman, Joe Dumars, Bill Laimbeer, Vinnie Johnson and others were known for their tenacity and physical play which Daly instilled in each and

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Dom DiMaggio passed away friday and was honored at Fenway Park as one of the all-time great Red Sox players. Dom is well regarded by Red Sox fans as he played all of his 11-years with the club even setting a Red Sox record with a 34 game hit streak. But those outside Boston may be surprised to hear that he and his brother are arguably the most talent set of brothers ever to set foot on the

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Watching Kobe Bryant elbow Ron Artest put a little smile on my face. Not because Kobe could be suspended or that it might have actually hurt Artest but because it brought back memories of the good old days of physical play. Remember when teams had an enforcer who would punish opposing players coming into the lane. They never backed down from a physical challenge.They were dirty if not mean and

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One of the greatest to ever put on a baseball uniform,Willie Mays, turns 78 today and is arguably the best living baseball player. Mays was the epitome of baseball in the 50's and 60's. He was what modern baseball scouts would call a "5-tool" player; he had speed, power, could hit for average, had a great arm and could play defense with the best.Mays's accomplishments are astounding:1) Career

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One of my favorite players of all-time was also one of the most creative. George Gervin of the San Antonio Spurs revolutionized the game with his classic "Finger Roll". The finger roll took talent, courage and above all else touch to pull off. It was mesmerizing to opposing defenders as it floated just out their reach. Gervin lead the league four times in scoring using this old school move. When

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I just watched HBO's new documentary Thrilla in Manila about the three classic boxing matches between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. From 1971 to 1975 the Frazier/Ali rivalry transformed the world of sports. HBO's documentary, to my surprise, portrayed Ali as a villain who's mean spirited actions would haunt Frazier indefinitely. Ali used many derogatory terms to describe his once friend such as "

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Last week Dikembe Mutombo announced his retirement ending his 18 year career as one of the best all-time shot blockers (Mutombo is 2nd in career blocks). This annoncement officially is an end of an era to me. What has happened to the true classic center? The 7 footer who would block shots, play down low with his back to the basket and took pride in intimidation. The Chamberlain's, the Olajuwon's

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According to Dictionary.com retirement means withdrawal from service, office, or business and into privacy or seclusion. We can only hope that the one of the all-time great announcers, John Madden doesn't use Dictionary.com. After John Madden announced his retirement last week, I began hoping that he would take after Brett Farve and find out that seclusion is way overrated. Wouldn't it be great

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The Memphis Tigers have perfected a new modern version of basketball's motion offense which was so important to the game in the early 80's. Bobby Knight, one of the most well know retro coaches used the motion offense and its passing and screening to open up scoring opportunities for his players at Indiana. Now, John Calipari has now taken it step further by eliminating the screens and replacing

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Referees are bad...they are the necessary evil that players, coaches and fans have to deal with. In fact they are so bad that a third one was added to help the other two out. So lets help them out...on all fouls the perpetrator should raise his or her hand and let the official know that they are guilty. Why try to confuse the already confused? Players should raise their hand and admit what they

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Looks like the San Francisco 49ers have figured out the old school is the new cool by going back to their "fire engine" red color. The difference is subtle but important. Teams are going back to the classic look and feel so to stir up old memories. What San Francisco needs is some old school 49er wins...if only they could bring back Montana and Rice.San Francisco 49ers new lookTop 5 Old School

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Boys high school basketball players in Washington state will have some adjusting to do as the WIAA passed an amendment that would add a35 second shot clock to the boys game. Washington is only the 7th state in the nation to do so. So why change now? It seems the modern movement in all of sports is for action. With the fast paced text messaging age upon us people want their sports to be action

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"Old school is cool" is the promotional motto of the Seattle Mariners Turn Back The Clock Night May 2nd. The game will be played to honor the 1939 Seattle Raniers championship team and the first 20,000 fans will get a free retro hat. The Mariners and A's will play in thier throwback uniforms from the Pacific Coast League. What a great way for fans to enjoy a game and remind us that old school is

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It is called the "fist pound" or just "pound" for short. The "pound" is a way that athletes celebrate a good moment in sports similar to the old school "high five". The pound has invaded our sports culture and supplanted the high five as the chosen handshake of athletes. I too use to be a "pound it" guy until I saw the following images:Not knowing how to do the pound makes for an awkward exchange

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