JERRY SLOAN AND PROJECTING THE SIXTIES INTO THE MODERN NBA & NFL

I wrote another long essay, this one starting off as a sort of tribute to the late Jerry Sloan, one of my favourite basketball players when I was a kid. Thinking about Sloan's qualities led me to write another 1,000 words about how he and players from his era might project into the modern NBA, and THAT led to another 1,000 words about how NFL (and AFL) players from the Sixties might project into the modern NFL. It was an exercise that fascinated me...you can read it at my Patreon site, which is an extremely reasonable $3/month to subscribe to, and I was be starting my preseason looks at all the NFL teams soon...you can link to FMTE at Patreon here.

THE PRETERNATURAL EVERYMAN: STEPH CURRY & THE NBA FINALS

I've written a preview of the NBA finals for Newstalk.com in Ireland, dealing with the difference between the rematch of last year's two finalist teams and the match-up of the game's two biggest stars, LeBron James and Steph Curry. You can link to it here...