Tampa Bay Sports Blog

Orlando’s short-lived 2 game win streak came to an abrupt halt Monday night in Memphis while the Grizzlies continued on to their 11th straight home win.
The Iverson-less Grizzlies have turned into one of the bright spots in the NBA this season; a young team, with talent and a coach who isn’t afraid to stand his [...]

Would someone please call the ASPCA and send them to pick up the carcass resembling the remains of the once proud Orlando Magic that lay still on the Verizon Center court in Washington DC.
Last night’s performance by the Magic against the turmoil filled Washington Wizards was absolutely deplorable. Despite the Magics horrific shooting woes which [...]

The NBA took a hard line approach to the Gilbert Arenas saga, which continues to get uglier each day as it continues to unfold, by suspending the former All-Star indefinitely.
In my humble opinion, this action is clearly the right call, and is actually overdue. If the NBA would have reacted more swiftly they could have [...]

Kudos to Coach Stan Van Gundy for making the prudent decision to insert Matt Barnes into the starting line-up replacing Mickael Pietrus.
The move gives the Magic a much more aggressive/active player to help combat their inability to start games with a high level of intensity. Barnes is a tireless worker on the glass and gets [...]

After watching Vince “Cupcake” Carter hit the deck following a mild collision with  Ersan IIyasova, I immediately predicted Carter would be slow to get up, so he could milk the crowd for some attention.
It is a scene I became all to familiar with while watching him play in New Jersey for the Nets. The slightest chance [...]

Dwight Howard had his Birthday wishes answered with a dominating performance coinciding with the Magics sixth straight victory and  eighth consecutive road win. Howard collected 24 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and a couple of posterizing dunks at the expense of Clipper starting center Chris Kaman.
Worthy of ‘its’ own stat line is the SEVEN blocked shots [...]

As expected, the Magic took care of the hapless New York Knicks in convincing fashion. You could get the sense early on that this was going to be a good old fashion shellacking. The Magic came out with good energy, executed well and ultimately wore down a decimated Knicks line up. Depth was a big [...]

Unless, you happen to live under a rock or your  oblivious to tabloid gossip, then your probably aware of the daily drama related to Tiger Woods apparent infidelity. As much as it pains me to write about such a subject, which I believe has absolutely nothing to do with sports, or is any of our [...]

The Orlando Magic are riding a five game winning streak which included wins against a struggling Celtic team on the road and another three against sub five hundred ball clubs. With Jameer Nelson, the fragile starting point guard out once again for a long duration, things could take a turn for the worst if the [...]

With every personal problem I think I have that prevents me from doing so many things in life, there is nothing that hits home like this. I have neglected a lot of things recently which include Ebay, friends and this blog. My life is busy and I don’t realize how little time there is until [...]

I know there are bigger things to discuss right now with the Rays and Magic, but I have to get this off my chest. At my son’s little league game yesterday I came across some stupidity that just floored me. I will try to put it into perspective for you. There was a conversation during [...]

Just wanted to drop a quick line to everyone, if you’re interested in any of the stuff I may be selling please jump over to my auctions. I’m putting a link up top to let everyone check it out. It may become a permanent thing if some of these deals keep coming at me. I [...]

Just to give everyone a heads up, I have written a guest “shit talking” post for David Chalk over at Bugs and Cranks. It was fun to rip on the Pirates and I may jump in on some others if time permits. Thanks to David for reaching out and letting me do a little trash [...]

Just to let everyone out there know, I’m selling some stuff on Ebay or can sell it to you directly if you don’t want to go through that.The auction links are just underneath the Amazon banner above.
There are some Westin step bars that we are discontinuing and need to be sold off out of our [...]

I finally got my twitter feed working again!

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There were a few crazy things that went on over the last couple weeks that I wanted to touch on and didn’t have time, but nothing got my attention more than the A-Rod deal. There has already been a tremendous amount of backlash on this situation and some of it is just funny. The dumbest [...]

The blog world is a wild place. I have learned a lot of things the hard way since I started doing this last year and it has humbled me like nothing else I’ve done. I have done a lot of things in my life that have molded me into the man that I have become. [...]

I’ve got some personal issues that have come up and these things will be eating up most of my time over the next few days so things will be slowed down dramatically. In the meantime I’m going to have Steve help me out with some site updates and what not. Any ideas you have that [...]

The playoff games yesterday were outstanding. I found myself just completely drawn to both games and could barely move while watching them, which was bad because I was at work. Oh well, my job is safe. There wasn’t much else on so I decided to watch a little of the Phoenix/Edmonton hockey game and I [...]

I need some help with a couple things on the site at the moment. First off, I hate Brighthouse and need to change service. Can anyone out there tell me if Verizon is in Pinellas County yet? If so, how good is it? I’m also having a tough time finding a Wordpress plugin that works [...]