Sports
Jobs, Palin, Clooney, and more
No doubt the talk this weekend will be about the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs. As always on Dinner Topics, we try to give you some details, so regarding Jobs, here are a few things to know: He had a liver transplant in 2008 and ultimately died from a form of pancreatic cancer. Over 300 [...]
Baseball playoffs begin today
If you’re not a baseball fan, you should at least know that the playoffs begin tonight. If you didn’t know that, you also didn’t know that Wednesday was one of the most dramatic finishes to a season in decades as the St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Rays squeaked into the playoffs thanks to total [...]
Who is Rory McIlroy?
The Dallas Mavericks just won the NBA Championship and the Boston Bruins ended a decades long slump to win the Stanley Cup this week, but the weekend sports conversation will likely center around a teenage looking kid dominating one of golf’s major tournaments. Through 36 holes, Rory McIlroy set a U.S. Open record, shooting 11-under [...]
Opening Day for baseball
Sure, they need to start games as early as March despite finishing the season in November, but like it or not, today is Major League Baseball’s official opening day. Historically, MLB’s oldest franchise, the Cincinnati Reds, always had the honor of hosting the first game of the year. Tradition gave way to Sunday night matchups [...]
Losing becoming contagious in Cleveland
LeBron James left Cleveland for the sun, beaches, and other talented basketball players of Miami. Since then, the Cleveland Cavaliers are busy enduring one of the worst season in the history of professional sports. After a mildly respectable 7-9 start (which should guarantee the prevention of an all-time losingest season in the NBA), the Cavs [...]
Metrodome’s collapsed roof hardly trivial
If you heard people talking about an NFL game being delayed yesterday and played tonight, they’re referring to the Minnesota Vikings hosting the New York Giants. The Vikings’ home stadium, the Metrodome, suffered a collapsed roof from a foot and a half of snow, however, so the Vikings will be “hosting” the Giants at Ford [...]
Oakland vs Illinois: men’s game, women’s ball?
Normally this site tries to give you information or background into something people are or will be talking about, but this time around, we found something interesting that won’t exactly make front page headlines but is worth mentioning. If anything, YOU can start the conversation out with this trivial anecdote. Last night, Oakland played Illinois [...]
LeBron returns to Cleveland… for the day
LeBron James and his new team, the Miami Heat, are in Cleveland tonight for a game against the Cavaliers. It’s likely to be the sports topic of the night as fans are expected to really let James have it after he left Cleveland for Miami this offseason. Regardless of your feelings about LeBron’s decision to [...]
