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Often in sports, the commentary birthed from the final whistle brings to life monikers fat of nostalgia and born free of perspective. Sports talk stations around the country have featured nauseating conjecture on which athletes get to be greater than the next as well as the games they play in. Athletes over their careers give us numbers to use as how to place them in the sports hierarchy. Those debates are filled with the shouting of statistics usually lacking any level of proper context. Half the time there’s no right answer, but how do you actually define a game worthy of being labeled “greatest of all time”? Sports are entertainment full of soap opera histrionics - if they entertain even a single soul, is that game to be considered or does it need specific identifiers and characteristics? Does it need the buzzer-beater endings or the tired David vs Goliath storyline to begin its rise to game GOAT hall of fame? If a game deemed as great lacks a large national audience is it sim...

“ Hard times bring out good songs ” –Glen Benton, Deicide  After a week of seemingly punishment for a non-TIDAL subscription, we were finally able to enjoy the release of Jay-Z’s 4:44 . This continues the now trio of crazy good albums to be released from the Knowles-Carter family. Last year, Beyonce gifted us with the instant classic, Lemonade . Album of the year (don’t @ me) and a subsequent tour that broke records and personally for me, the greatest concert I’ve ever been to.   One of the only albums I can immediately recall where I was when the album dropped, and the only (and likely last) record that released exclusively through TIDAL when I had an a subscription. Lemonade was everything. A multitude of visions and perfectly packaged work of art of social commentary, marriage, and a baseball bat named Hot Sauce. Oh, and a damn motion picture that was as fun and interesting as the album itself. A mere five months after Beyonce tightened her grip on the world (a...

It just feels right that Candace Parker is now a WNBA Champion.  The 1 st overall pick of the 2008 draft entered the league with expectations never bestowed upon a rookie coming out of any college. Only fitting as Parker was a talent the league had never seen before. There had never been a player with the size coupled with the athleticism. At Tennessee she was listed as a center, guard, and forward. A transcendent talent that won at every level. Two-time National Player of the Year. Naismith Awards, repeat championships for the Lady Vols. Olympic Gold Medals. Titles in Russia with her club Ekaterinburg.  For Parker, the year 2016 was up and down. For reasons still unknown, she was not selected to the USA Basketball roster for the Rio Olympics. For whatever reason – none of them possibly good, the greatest forward in basketball wasn’t playing for a team whom she was a leader for the past two Olympic games. A month into season, Parker’s college coach at Tennessee ...