Sports Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/sports Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:21:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Sports Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/sports 32 32 A Day in the Life: 36 more and a Warrior down https://www.halphillips.net/a-day-in-the-life-36-more-and-a-warrior-down?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-day-in-the-life-36-more-and-a-warrior-down https://www.halphillips.net/a-day-in-the-life-36-more-and-a-warrior-down#respond Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:05:30 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=737 The day-to-day existence of The Golf Road Warrior might sound, well, sorta cushy when viewed from a distance. But trust me: The pace is unrelentingly, if purposely, grueling. Let me give you the blow by blow of our Saturday in County Donegal, using the 24-hour clock that pervades here: 01:15, Saturday, 23 July — To […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/a-day-in-the-life-36-more-and-a-warrior-down/feed 0 USA v. Mexico: Americans exposed at the back https://www.halphillips.net/usavmexicoamericansexposedattheback?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=usavmexicoamericansexposedattheback https://www.halphillips.net/usavmexicoamericansexposedattheback#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:31:26 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=641     Behold, the Unsightly American Soccer Podcast for the week of June 27, 2011. The Gold Cup has concluded, and the Mexicans, by virtue of their 4-2 victory, have laid claim to biannual honors as top dog in CONCACAF. This is our Federation, of course, the agglomeration of North American, Central American and Caribbean […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/usavmexicoamericansexposedattheback/feed 0 Fullcourt Pod: NBA Playoff Chat for April 25, 2011 https://www.halphillips.net/fullcourt-pod-nba-playoff-chat-for-april-25-2011?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fullcourt-pod-nba-playoff-chat-for-april-25-2011 https://www.halphillips.net/fullcourt-pod-nba-playoff-chat-for-april-25-2011#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:32:55 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=492 It’s NBA Playoff time, about midway through Round I, and so we take stock of key developments courtesy of  Fullcourt Pod’s resident near-savants, Hal Phillips and Jammin’ James W. Jackson Jr. This week’s fixation and jumping-off point is Laker Coach Phil Jackson‘s indifference toward defending Chris Paul — or should we say inability? 2011.04.25 Fullcourt […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/fullcourt-pod-nba-playoff-chat-for-april-25-2011/feed 0 Desert Golf Safari Conjures Memories of Bob Labbance https://www.halphillips.net/desert-golf-safari-provokes-memories-of-bob-labbance?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=desert-golf-safari-provokes-memories-of-bob-labbance https://www.halphillips.net/desert-golf-safari-provokes-memories-of-bob-labbance#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:25:57 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=485 So I’ve been thinking a lot about Bob Labbance lately. Bob was a good friend, a golf writer and historian, a counter-culturist after a fashion, and, as my grandfather would have described him, one of nature’s gentlemen. Note the tense. Bob suffered a traumatic fall and paralysis in 2007. He fought back to regain a […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/desert-golf-safari-provokes-memories-of-bob-labbance/feed 2 Unsightly American Soccer Podcast: April 1 Edition https://www.halphillips.net/unsightly-american-soccer-podcast?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unsightly-american-soccer-podcast https://www.halphillips.net/unsightly-american-soccer-podcast#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:12:35 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=458   Join Hal Phillips and a cast of characters/correspondents spanning the Globe to discuss  the burning, hot, molten issues of the footballing day. This week we present a pre-Champions League Quarterfinal edition, in advance of the four matches scheduled for April 5 and 6. Big doings, but that’s not all: Hal and guests Dave Batista […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/unsightly-american-soccer-podcast/feed 0 Curmudgeon talks Asia, Tiger, galleries with Kessler https://www.halphillips.net/curmudgeon-talks-asia-tiger-galleries-with-kessler?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=curmudgeon-talks-asia-tiger-galleries-with-kessler https://www.halphillips.net/curmudgeon-talks-asia-tiger-galleries-with-kessler#respond Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:56:48 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=362 The Curmudgeon, a.k.a. Hal Phillips, made a guest appearance Feb. 22 on Peter Kessler’s “Making the Turn”, a fixture on the PGA Tour Radio network (XM 146/Sirius 209). As a guest on someone else’s show, he kept the ranting and complaining to a minimum, but there was nevertheless lively conversation on the state of the […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/curmudgeon-talks-asia-tiger-galleries-with-kessler/feed 0 A Tale of Two Soccer Melting Pots https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:11:58 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=153   By Dee Schmidt One of the things you need to know about me is that while I’m counter-cultural and an American through and through (you can be both, my brothers and sisters), my paternal ancestry is seriously Teutonic. Dig: My dad was Austrian and because the heyday of Austrian football came in the 1930s […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/a-tale-of-two-soccer-melting-pots/feed 0 Defrosted Retromensch serves up pre-WC punditry https://www.halphillips.net/defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry https://www.halphillips.net/defrosted-retromensch-serves-up-pre-wc-punditry#respond Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:09:50 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=133   By Dee Schmidt Hello, world. I’m from the ‘70s and if you’re reading this, you’re probably not. So bear with me, future dudes. I’ve spent 32 of the last 36 years frozen solid, biding my time at the bottom of an ever-expanding trash heap on the snow-white shores of Hudson Bay. I’m from Encinitas, […]

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