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The Evil Empire's New Clothes: Am I Missing Something About Joba?

While my participation in fantasy sports was born sometime in the last decade, in retrospect I think I’ve been subscribing to the concept and principles of fantasy as early as age 10. Once a year...

Written by Kris Pollina about 4 months ago 84 reads 1 comments
The Real World: Draft Lobby

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking...

Written by Kris Pollina about 8 months ago 131 reads 2 comments
A-Rod Haters Juiced with HGH (Hardened Glaring Hypocrisy)

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.—Moliere I am the proud owner of a blue iPod mini that I received as a Christmas present in 2004...

Written by Kris Pollina about 9 months ago 154 reads 2 comments
First, Class: Elevating the Role of Ethics in Sports

“Winning is nice if you don’t lose your integrity in the process.” –Arnold Horshak, Welcome Back, Kotter Forget steroids. Forget asterisks. Forget gambling, sideline taping, dogfighting, DUIs, and firearm possession...

Written by Kris Pollina about 10 months ago 167 reads 5 comments
Why Female Sportscasters Lose Their Luster

"A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act like a man." –Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, American CongressmanOn January 20, 2009, the first ...

Written by Kris Pollina about 10 months ago 752 reads 13 comments
The First Step is Admitting you have a Problem: How Sports have Skewed my Sanity

“The fan is the one who suffers.” –Frank Robinson When you have spent enough time screaming at the TV in public or when you have worn enough team-branded clothing, you become known as the sports you support...

Written by Kris Pollina about 11 months ago 274 reads 7 comments
Breaking the Ten Commandments in 2008

"Sports is a game. You need to play by the rules." -John Baxter For all athletes' endzone signs-of-the-cross and pointing to heaven between innings, very few actually live by any religious rubric...

Written by Kris Pollina about 11 months ago 247 reads 3 comments
19 Things I Learned From Dating a Boston Sports Fan

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”—William James Remember when Ed Norton went to jail in American History X? Even though he suffered some disturbing blows at the hands of his ...

Written by Kris Pollina about about 1 year ago 1,095 reads 26 comments
For Love Of The Game: Retirement Case Studies To Help Jamie Moyer

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”—Orson Welles My dad tells this story of his friend’s big night at the craps table in Vegas...

Written by Kris Pollina about about 1 year ago 485 reads 3 comments
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend: Choosing Sides in the 2008 World Series

"There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person whom in one impulse, one value, assumes ascendancy over all others." -Milton R...

Written by Kris Pollina about about 1 year ago 189 reads 1 comments
Curt Schilling's Shocking Discovery of New York-Boston Animosity

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." -Plato Curt Schilling reminds me of the generic and requisite Real World stock character: the ...

Written by Kris Pollina about about 1 year ago 2,175 reads 17 comments

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Kris Pollina Article Archive

The Evil Empire's New Clothes: Am I Missing Something About Joba?

The Real World: Draft Lobby

A-Rod Haters Juiced with HGH (Hardened Glaring Hypocrisy)

First, Class: Elevating the Role of Ethics in Sports

Why Female Sportscasters Lose Their Luster

The First Step is Admitting you have a Problem: How Sports have Skewed my Sanity

Breaking the Ten Commandments in 2008

19 Things I Learned From Dating a Boston Sports Fan

For Love Of The Game: Retirement Case Studies To Help Jamie Moyer

The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend: Choosing Sides in the 2008 World Series

Curt Schilling's Shocking Discovery of New York-Boston Animosity

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