Joe Posnanski
Joe Posnanski
Joe Posnanski is an American sports journalist. A former senior columnist for Sports Illustratedand columnist for The Kansas City Star, he currently is the national columnist for NBC Sports and also writes for his personal blog, Joe Blog...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth8 January 1967
CountryUnited States of America
bowl dies leading
The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.
ballplayer believed cleveland indians kid louis named native pause played
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
sports mean weekend
When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the weekend. you see how they build their lives around it. People sort of want to get away from their lives.
lines pessimist optimist
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?
moving fighting blow
How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.
sports fun real
Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.