On its surface intramural sports for grown men seems like the perfect opportunity to get in shape, bond with a couple guys and praise the gods with the spirit of competition. Well it may be these things if you play in a league of friends who all know and respect one another but for the standard leagues that you will join it is not. My experience with intramural sports having done it for both basketball and football is that there are 3 types of people who come out to play against you. The first is the dad who wants an excuse to run around in hopes of losing his beer gut, the second is the ex-athlete that misses the game and the third (who ruins It for every one) is the never-was, the once-was or the wannabe. This third player is a guy who is either disillusioned that anyone outside of his screaming wife cares… [Read more]

We’re not only writers, we’re readers and below are some of the highlights of the past few weeks that we wish to share: The Conundrum of Watching Fine Women Play Basketball Is our integrity as sports fans on the line if we stop and stare at the beautiful women that play the game of basketball? Should we be able to keep it together as the national championship is decided before our very eyes? Are we just heathens? Probably, but this is nothing new in the world of sport […] Is She Fat Or Thick? Who Gives A F**K What’s the difference between thick and fat? Who decides when the PH replaces the F? The Answer is: Who gives a fuck. There is a debate in America over the weight of a woman, and what’s attractive and what’s not. Black people in general have become the punch line when it comes to a little more cushion… [Read more]

Recently I joined a bunch of friends in starting an intramural flag football team. We’ve been playing for some weeks now and I’ve started to notice a strange parallel between an intramural team and starting a small business with partners. The parallel is so solid that it’s almost scary, because like an intramural team everyone goes into a business with big thoughts, big plans and they see the end goal moreso than they see the reality of what it will take to get that end goal. When you join an intramural team you start to reminisce on being 18 or 21 years old and in the best shape of your life: rebounding hard, jumping to catch passes, falling and tumbling without regard to your body, knowing that injuries will heal no matter what. Yet when you go out there as an older man and you jump for that pass and fall, you may get up… [Read more]

Here at The Hall there is a term you’ll read often within my articles called “blacking out” or “beast mode”. I pen the term to mean going beyond the norm of your humanity and excelling in either one act of greatness or a series of actions. Beast Mode isn’t something you announce or summon at will which is why I refer to it at times as “blacking out”. Beast Mode is when the times get desperate and something clicks in your mind, the time space continuum, and you simply perform without consciousness a feat that is worthy of legend. People greet a beast with questions such as “how in the hell did you do that?” and the answer is normally along the lines of “I don’t know”. Being the best is great but it leads people to belittle your accomplishments, Beasting is when an average guy becomes the greatest ever from one solitary act. So… [Read more]

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She’s comfortable wearing a velour jogging suit, sneakers and no make-up when you go to the sports bar. She can throw a spiral as well as run a post to actually catch the ball. She hates how women backstab each other so she keeps at most one girlfriend choosing instead the company of guys. She either ran track or played volleyball in college, keeps up with a professional team and can stomach beer. She is sexy all the time but beautiful when she dons make-up and skirt for her friend’s wedding or dinner party. She is the quintessential hot tomboy. She is the woman that most guys go crazy over on paper, but few guys actively pursue in life. Most women like this are snatched up out of college; they are godsends, goldmines, and diamonds in the rough for an athletic type of guy. They make for low maintenance, highly loyal and cool girlfriends for… [Read more]

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“Thinking about boycotting the NFL until they stop allowing thugs to play in it. I mean if you are an attorney and you commit a crime you go to jail + get dis-barred, why are murders and dog killers allowed to make 6 mil a year? Aren’t there like at least 5 current players in the NFL who have like literally killed people?” This sentiment seems to exist in much of the public, and I believe people have this sentiment because they make the common mistake of comparing sports to an everyday job.  To use a cliche, this is like comparing apples to oranges, you can’t compare sports to being an accountant, the environments are so far apart there is no way you can make that comparison.  Let me start by saying that I don’t believe killing someone is right, or fighting dogs and other crimes should be overlooked by society.  But the legal system… [Read more]