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Buzzsaw Sports Guy: A satirical look at sports A trip by a local news team to a nearby sports bar successfully depicted people watching a sporting contest for viewers at home, most of whom had also just watched the same game. When they weren’t watching the game on one of the televisions, the intoxicated bar [...]

It doesn’t take much to recognize how miserable February at Ithaca College can be. We try to make the best of it, but the fact is, it’s constantly freezing out and it snows about five to seven days a week. Most of us carry a sickly, pasty complexion into the nominally warmer spring months, unless [...]

Buzzsaw Sports Guy: A satirical look at sports A furious Kevin Garnett tossed his crepe aside in disgust, shattered his plate against the floor, got up and started screaming at the waitress who had just given him the wrong food at a Denver-area IHOP yesterday morning. After a scuffle that lasted about a full minute, [...]

Buzzsaw Sports Guy: A satirical look at sports By Chris Giblin A small team of Russian billionaires collectively purchased the National Hockey League at an NHL owner’s meeting last week. The Russians came away with all 30 teams for the price of $5 billion. There are plans to move all or a vast majority of [...]

Buzzsaw Sports Guy: A satirical look at sports Lansing resident Tom Shields declared his ongoing shock at the existence of the Oklahoma City Thunder last Saturday night at a friend’s dinner party. Chatting with a few fellow sports fans, he expressed his doubts that the city’s metro area could support a major sports team, focusing [...]

Buzzsaw Sports Guy: A satirical look at sports Looking down the barrel at another long season that was sure to fall short of the irrational, unfounded expectations placed on them by their fans, the New York Mets organization decided to scrap the 2011 regular season before it even started by not playing in it. According [...]

Buzzsaw Sports Guy: a satirical look at sports To my wife Emily, my daughter Susie and the rest of my family, I know funds have been pretty tight this past year, what with this recession continuing and all. There were a few months there when I thought it just wasn’t going to happen again this [...]

Buzzsaw Sports Guy: a satirical look at sports NBA Commissioner David Stern announced yesterday that this year’s playoffs will be extended slightly to encompass nearly half of the calendar year. The new format will abbreviate the regular season in late March and will call for an ongoing playoff experience that won’t end until some time [...]

A satirical look at sports by Chris Giblin A beaming Rex Ryan gallantly strode off the field in Foxborough Sunday night following the New York Jets’ 28-21 playoff victory over the top-ranked New England Patriots. His eyes twinkled in the stadium lights as he fought back tears of joy while entering the locker room. “Well, [...]

Hey everyone, Buzzsaw Sports Guy here. Don’t wanna waste too much of your time, lots of great sports on TV right now. Also don’t forget, SportsCenter is always best the third time through. In other words, you really have no time to be reading so much about sports, putting forth cognitive effort when you could [...]