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Pardiniosophy Sports Edition: NBA Playoffs Preview

Pardiniosophy is a podcast where Nick Pardini talks about politics, society, and sports. In this special sports edition, Nick talks with Common Sense Magazine analyst Roman Mathys about the early results of the MLB season and previews the NBA playoffs...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about 7 months ago 21 reads 0 comments
Nick's NBA Notes 11/1/2008

1. Lakers look dominant. Although the Los Angeles Lakers have only played two games this season, they seem to be proving preseason prognosticators to be correct by playing dominant basketball...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 103 reads 0 comments
Episode 24: The Demise of the Dollar

What has happened to the economy and what is the real extent of this slowdown? Nick explains the truth behind these problems lies in a 95 year history of the US government debasing the dollar...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 103 reads 0 comments
College Football Weekly Roundup Week Six: Here Comes Alabama

With a tumultuous week filled with upsets and nine ranked teams losing. Who now leads the national title race and who gets the BCS shovel? 1...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 435 reads 1 comments
Why Don’t Commentators Ever Run for Office?

Commentators across the media from talk radio to television constantly rant about political issues and what is wrong with society...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 122 reads 1 comments
Mountain West a BCS Conference? Only If It Absorbs WAC's Top Teams

College football, unlike any other major sport, lacks a playoff. In the current BCS system, due to polls and automatic BCS berths, only schools from the Pac-10, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, Big East, and the ACC can compete for national titles...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 2,477 reads 10 comments
College Football Weekly Roundup 1: UnACCeptable

What happened to the ACC on week one? The ACC had possibly the worst opening week ever for a BCS conference since the start of the BCS...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 374 reads 0 comments
Common Sense College Football Preview Part VIII: Top 25 and Non-Conference Games

The college football season has kicked off. The 12-game season has opened up BCS schools to challenge themselves in the non-conference...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 241 reads 1 comments
Common Sense College Football Preview Part VII: Non-BCS Contenders

With the opening of a fifth BCS bowl game and the recent trend of non-BCS schools making BCS bowl games in three of the past four seasons (2-1 in those games), which team from outside a BCS ...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 796 reads 9 comments
Common Sense College Football Part VI: Big Time Quarterbacking In The Big XII

The Big XII conference historically has been known for tough football and the running game. However, there might be a change in identity this season...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 174 reads 0 comments
Common Sense College Football Preview Part V: ACC

Despite bowl struggles, the ACC will still have a competitive race to reach the Orange Bowl. With Florida State and Miami facing down years, the ACC has its most wide-open race in years...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 520 reads 0 comments
Common Sense College Football Preview Part III: A Critique of Big Ten Football

The Big Ten used to set the standard of a college football conference. Due its recent futility, the Big Ten is now a joke among college football fans across America...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 693 reads 9 comments
Common Sense College Football Preview Part IV: Big East Preview

In recent years, the Big East has improved from being a joke of a BCS conference (now the Big Ten) to the fourth best conference in college football. Other than Syracuse, every team in this league has a shot at the Big East title...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 811 reads 6 comments
Common Sense College Football Preview Part II: Pac-10 Preview

The Pac-10 is not as deep as last season, but the league is top heavy with a national championship favorite in USC and three BCS bowl contenders in Arizona State, Oregon, and Oregon State. However, the middle and the bottom of the Pac-10 is woefully weak.

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 499 reads 23 comments
Common Sense Mag College Football Preview Part I: Florida Retakes SEC

This article is the beginning of an eight-part series that will predict outcome of the 2008 college football season. There will be one article for each BCS conference, one for top non-BCS schools, ...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 439 reads 11 comments
Canadian Athletics: An Olympic Sized Embarrassment

The Olympics have been filled with great stories and medals awarded to numerous countries from the powerhouses of United States and China to much smaller nations such as Tajikstan and Lithuania...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 361 reads 5 comments
Open Mic: USA Vs China Part I: Political Stakes In The Olympic Games

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Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 237 reads 3 comments
Going Greek: How Josh Childress Leaving the Hawks Impacts the NBA and NCAA

For years the Euro leagues have been nothing but an afterthought to NBA fans. Undrafted rookies or washed up veterans who failed to make the twelve man roster often go to Europe to languish in obscurity as the NBA's version of the CFL...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 7,805 reads 6 comments
With the Seattle Supersonics Gone, Who’s Next on the Move?

In American professional sports, franchise relocation is inevitable. The Seattle Supersonics’ move to Oklahoma city is just the most recent...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 2,094 reads 13 comments
NBA Draft 2008 Analysis: Winners, Losers, Steals and Busts

Now that the draft and major draft day trades are completed, it is time to analyze which teams won and lost from this draft...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 3,169 reads 5 comments
Hollywood Heist: Celtics Steal One As Lakers Choke in Game 4

With the score 35-14, the Los Angeles Lakers took a twenty-one point first quarter lead—the largest in NBA Finals history. At the end of the second quarter, Jordan Farmar banked in a three-pointer to maintain an 18-point lead at halftime...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 554 reads 2 comments
Globalization and Sports, Part V: Will Soccer Ever Be Relevant in America?

In recent years American sports leagues have been attempting to export the popularity of baseball, basketball, hockey and football abroad...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 1,070 reads 6 comments
Globalization and Sports Part IV: NFL, Nationalistic Football League

The NFL, by a large margin, earns the most revenue and has the most popularity of any professional sports league in the United States, and holds the title as the world’s most commercially successful sports league...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 1,319 reads 8 comments
Globalization and Sports, Part III: Mixed Resuts for MLB

Ever since baseball was first played in the 1830s, the game has regarded as America’s national pastime. However, baseball actually has more popularity in several foreign countries such ...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 1,553 reads 1 comments
Globalization and Sports Part II: How The NBA Should Expand Into Europe

Globalization has taken the hold of America's major sport, but no league has had more success or a more involved future with the international market than the NBA...

Written by Nicholas Pardini about about 1 year ago 1,716 reads 2 comments

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Nicholas Pardini Article Archive

Pardiniosophy Sports Edition: NBA Playoffs Preview

Nick's NBA Notes 11/1/2008

Episode 24: The Demise of the Dollar

College Football Weekly Roundup Week Six: Here Comes Alabama

Why Don’t Commentators Ever Run for Office?

Mountain West a BCS Conference? Only If It Absorbs WAC's Top Teams

College Football Weekly Roundup 1: UnACCeptable

Common Sense College Football Preview Part VIII: Top 25 and Non-Conference Games

Common Sense College Football Preview Part VII: Non-BCS Contenders

Common Sense College Football Part VI: Big Time Quarterbacking In The Big XII

Common Sense College Football Preview Part V: ACC

Common Sense College Football Preview Part III: A Critique of Big Ten Football

Common Sense College Football Preview Part IV: Big East Preview

Common Sense College Football Preview Part II: Pac-10 Preview

Common Sense Mag College Football Preview Part I: Florida Retakes SEC

Canadian Athletics: An Olympic Sized Embarrassment

Open Mic: USA Vs China Part I: Political Stakes In The Olympic Games

Going Greek: How Josh Childress Leaving the Hawks Impacts the NBA and NCAA

With the Seattle Supersonics Gone, Who’s Next on the Move?

NBA Draft 2008 Analysis: Winners, Losers, Steals and Busts

Hollywood Heist: Celtics Steal One As Lakers Choke in Game 4

Globalization and Sports, Part V: Will Soccer Ever Be Relevant in America?

Globalization and Sports Part IV: NFL, Nationalistic Football League

Globalization and Sports, Part III: Mixed Resuts for MLB

Globalization and Sports Part II: How The NBA Should Expand Into Europe

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