Author Archives: Rhett Bender
Obscure Sports Stars: The Lassie of Quivering Grove
Every so often Exquisite Sports Talk will tell you about an Obscure Sports Star. Whether wildly unknown due to the sport involved, the position he plays, or someone coming out of nowhere in sport that is already “mainstream”, Exquisite Sports Talk has you covered. Let’s talk about Kaninhop. Most everyone has at some point seen […]
Hipster Netflix Gems: The Piano
Every once in a while we’ll come to you with a movie that you’ve probably never heard of, but you should watch it anyways because we say so. Perhaps I am a sucker for the use of classical music in movies, particularly ones of passion and violence. After all, A Clockwork Orange and the Star Wars prequels […]
Sports as Governments
We finally ended our government shutdown, during which Congressional approval rating polls have gone to as low as 5%. Presidential approval ratings are at the lowest since the start of his 2nd term, Obamacare’s website is atrocious, and Americans are focusing on the important things: football, baseball playoffs, and the upcoming basketball season! So for […]
Obscure Sports Stars: Jason Grilli
Every so often Exquisite Sports Talk will tell you about an Obscure Sports Star. Whether wildly unknown due to the sport involved, the position he plays, or someone coming out of nowhere in sport that is already “mainstream”, Exquisite Sports Talk has you covered. If you are a regular follower of baseball, you no doubt […]
MLB Play-in Notes and Predictions
Even when they added an extra team to the postseason, the teams found a way to tie. Today it will be the Tampa Bay Rays at the Texas Rangers in Arlington, with David Price going up against Martin Perez. Pitching match-up: Coming off of a Cy Young last year, injuries and location troubles led Price […]
Why the Dolphins Are Making the Playoffs
This is not a jinx. This is not a jinx. This is not a jinx. I know that upon reading the title of this article, my fellow Dolphin fans are thinking: “please just don’t jinx this.” I certainly understand why. In the past ten years, the Dolphins certainly haven’t played very well. Their record over […]
Obscure Sports Stars: Derrick Coleman
Every so often Exquisite Sports Talk will tell you about an Obscure Sports Star. Whether wildly unknown due to the sport involved, or someone coming out of nowhere in sport that is already “mainstream”, Exquisite Sports Talk has you covered. The fullback position isn’t one highly focused on in today’s NFL, as most of the […]
NFL Season Preview
In case you missed it, Darrick and I discussed who we thought the top 10 teams were coming into the season right here at about 33 minutes in. And we made our picks for the top 10 teams going into the season….but as the season is about to start I realize that you guys have […]
Rhett’s Rant of the Week #5: Miley, Keep on Twerkin’
If for some reason you are reading this and didn’t know, the internet exploded last week after Miley Cyrus “twerked” in her performance, which you can watch below. Unfortunately two drafts of this previously got deleted by my computer, but the points remain regardless! I saw nothing of this live (I didn’t even realize people […]
Rhett’s Rant of the Week #4: Long Live the Kings
Feel free to watch this video, or have it going as you read the rest of the article: Last week news was brought out that the potential owner of the Seattle Supersonics, Chris Hansen donated $100,000 towards a political action committee trying to halt the Kings new arena being built in downtown Sacramento. While if […]
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