It’s time to face the facts – your favorite baseball team sucks and you still don’t have a job – and this ever-present realization is why the beer hasn’t been tasting as good as it once did. Maybe we need some football. High school football, Arena Football, something. Got to shake it off. Get back [...]

When it comes to Mike Tyson the train wreck is never bad enough to make you want to turn away. Except for maybe that time Lennox Lewis made him bleed from inside his eyelids back in 2002. Throughout the past three decades the true human drama unfolding before you is as real as reality television [...]

By – J.C.
Hop on the bandwagon while seats are still available. United States Soccer is the talk of the sports world (or should be) now that they wrapped up their first-ever trip to a world final in improbable fashion on Wednesday. It goes without saying though that many didn’t believe the U.S. had much of a [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan
The celebration began for the Los Angeles Lakers during a timeout with 40 seconds to go on Sunday night, but their 15th NBA title had already been wrapped up long before that though. It didn’t take much from there to make it official either, by way of a 99-86 Game 5 decision over the Orlando [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan

In the most recent episode of the NBA Finals on Thursday night the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers overcome a parade of whistles by an eager officiating crew at Amway Arena to actually make a game out of Game 4.
The 99-91 win for L.A. gives the Lakers a firm 3-1 series lead and inches the franchise closer to [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan
Proving there is indeed a first time for everything, the Orlando Magic won their first NBA Finals game in seven tries on Tuesday night over the Los Angeles Lakers. That cuts the series lead to 2-1 for L.A. and improves Orlando’s futile mark in the Finals to 1-6 overall in this, their second trip. The cravings [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan
You would think that after the second-half blowout we sat through in Game 1 on Thursday night the Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic would remember they’re in the NBA Finals and act accordingly. But instead we at Joint Contrast had to ride the edge of our sofas into overtime before finding out how the second installment [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan
After what felt like a two-week layoff for fans, the NBA Finals finally got underway Thursday night at The Forum in California as the Los Angeles Lakers (65-17) played host to the Orlando Magic (59-23). We here at Joint Contrast caught the action up close and personal straight from the comfort of [...]

It took six games each for the Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic to advance to the 2009 NBA Finals which begin this Thursday. While fans in Denver and Cleveland are still coming to terms with those unfulfilled championship dreams, the rest of the country just hopes for a decent series. Will it go seven [...]

For the Cleveland Cavs it’s down to survival mode in Game 5 tonight after allowing the Orlando Magic to come away with the advantage following the first four games. With a somewhat surprising 3-1 series lead (to anyone outside of Central Florida) the Magic look to close the door on Cleveland’s dreams of a championship season and [...]