The NBA Draft is old news, but it takes us a few days to make a snap judgment. Our next piece of instant analysis will be an evaluation of Portland Trail Blazers’ choice of Sam Bowie instead of Michael Jordan with the second pick of the 1984 NBA Draft.  (It’s a rather short article titled ...

The Pac-10’s expansion to 12 teams has provided only one noticeable benefit for football fans and players – a conference championship game. To which we respond, “OK, so where is this grand television event going to be played?” Gulp. There is an ideal venue on the drawing board, but unfortunately they don’t play games on ...

Our faith in NBA scouts’ expertise was restored at about 8 p.m. Thursday, when the New York Knicks took Stanford standout Landry Fields early in the second round of the NBA Draft. Now, we understand that using the Knicks as a standard for “expertise” is taking a few liberties, given the team’s administrative screwups in ...

The Bay Area has not exactly been a hotbed of NBA talent recently; in fact, you might say the region has been a coldbed.  Well, you might say that if it were a word. For the fourth time in the past eight years, it appears that no player from a Bay Area college will be taken ...

Have you ever sat beside a guy with binoculars  and wonder whether he’s getting a better look at the game than you are? Sure, you get the panorama of the event, a feel for the atmosphere and all that, but this guy over here is focusing on the nuances of the game, the little things ...

We’re trying to imagine the reaction of Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby and Cal A.D. Sandy Barbour when Pac-12 salesman supreme  Larry Scott triumphantly strolled in and said: “Hey, I got Colorado to agree to join us, and all I had to do was promise those guys they would be in a division with the ...

Grammar seldom enters into our discussions at JakesTakeOnSports, because, quite frankly, we ain’t got no reason to be complaining of the inference of the way our words we makes use of.   If you catch my drift.  However, the World Cup provided a nice reminder of subject-verb agreement, a literary formality my former employer, the San ...

There is one cool thing about the addition of Utah to the Pac-10.   Well, presumably there are several cool things about Utah pertaining to TV markets and regional composition and the need for a 12th school, or Larry Scott, the Pac-10’s rookie home-run-hitting first baseman and part-time commissioner,  would not have invited the Utes to ...

Let’s get one thing established: Fitness training is not easy.   Any program that promises remarkable results with minimal effort cannot be taken seriously.  Any athlete can tell you that. However, there are programs that can guide you through the process, providing efficient training targeted for specific areas of concern.   Three of the best are  the High Intensity Interval ...

Texas reminds us of Eddie.  You may know him as Jimmy or Rex or Zeke or Hambone or Slick, but they all represent the same person.   Eddie was the guy who made the choices for your clique of five of six junior-high boys.   Either by force of his physical stature or his personal charisma or ...