Email Author Ed Kummerer

2013 Stories by Ed Kummerer

• Burned Out

  published May 9, 2013

  Tommy Grady is in a slump. A year ago, the Utah Blaze quarterback posted the greatest season of any passer in Arena League history. Grady... More >>

• Hoofstock

  published May 2, 2013

  It’s odd that horse racing and dog racing are viewed so differently. When you boil the two activities down to their essentials,... More >>

• Claw to the Top

  published April 25, 2013

  It’s hard to be terrible in the Arena Football League. Salaries are essentially the same for every team and player, the league is small... More >>

• Bite Fight

  published April 18, 2013

  Four weeks ago, the Phoenix Coyotes’ playoff hopes were all but dead. After a seven-game losing streak and an apparent trading-deadline... More >>

• Kick It

  published April 11, 2013

  Soccer has been touted as America’s next national pastime for as long as we can remember. Back in the 1970s, Pelé was going to... More >>

• Truck Stop

  published April 4, 2013

  If you’re older than 25 and younger than 50, you remember the Super Off-Road arcade game. Even if you’ve never played it... More >>

• Changing Faces

  published March 28, 2013

  Whatever else is written about the Arizona Diamondbacks this season, they deserve this much: The team wasn’t afraid to take a risk. The... More >>

• Title Roll

  published March 21, 2013

  Before Ahmed Alsoudani took the contemporary art world by storm, he grew up in Iraq, lived in Syria as a refugee, and fled to the United States... More >>

• Mysterious Plays

  published March 14, 2013

  Baseball is the most predictable team sport ever invented. A clever statistician can predict -- with surprising accuracy -- how many wins your... More >>

• Whole New World

  published March 7, 2013

  Baseball doesn’t lend itself to nationalism like other sports. England and Argentina will always have bad blood not because of the... More >>

• Wild Side

  published February 28, 2013

  We’ll say this much for the lockout that shortened this year’s hockey season: It certainly has made the rest of the season more... More >>

• Spring Has Sprung

  published February 21, 2013

  With the exception of a Super Bowl here or there, it’s rare that Arizona gets a glimmer of national spotlight for sports. The glaring... More >>

• Spring Break

  published February 14, 2013

  February is an awful time of year to be a sports fan because there’s basically nothing of importance going on in any major sport... More >>

• The Beginning of the End

  published February 7, 2013

  Human beings have a unique talent for believing they're discovering patterns, though those patterns actually don’t exist. This explains... More >>

• The Swing Set

  published January 31, 2013

  It’s rarely considered newsworthy when a 40-something pro athlete flirts with retirement (especially if he doesn’t send lewd text... More >>

• Kickstarter

  published January 24, 2013

  The Mexican Men’s National Soccer team has always suffered from being a big fish in a small pond. El Tri have dominated CONCACAF play for... More >>

• Going to Extremes

  published January 10, 2013

  Last year was a bittersweet one for Ryan Villopoto. On one hand, the 24-year-old supercross star captured his second consecutive AMA Supercross... More >>

• Change of Tune

  published January 3, 2013

  The Phoenix Suns need to get hot fast. The team has an absolutely brutal January schedule which features seven of the teams ahead of the Suns... More >>

• A League of Their Own

  published January 3, 2013

  Robert Putnam famously used bowling to demonstrate the decay of social interaction in the United States, observing that even though more people... More >>