Month: February 2017

HOT TAKES, SPROTS

If pressed into duty, which pro sport could you contribute most (or hurt your team least) in?

We’ve all dreamed of playing in the big game. Hitting the winning shot, a walk-off home run, or an overtime goal to win the Stanley Cup.

But the truth is, 99.9 percent of us don’t have anywhere near the skills you would need to even think about playing professional sports.

But what if we got that chance? What if one of the league’s teams called you up and pressed you into duty? What sport could you contribute the most in, or, hurt your team the least in?

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The Washington Capitals are all-in and I love it

Now THAT is what people want when the trade deadline rolls around.

None of this waffling about should they make a move, or tinker, or ride it out with what they have and hope it works out.

The Washington Capitals, the best team in the NHL, went out and got the best player available this trade deadline season, and are going balls out to try and finally win the Stanley Cup.

I love it.

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HOTSPROTSTAKES Podcast 7: RIP Naked Chicken Chalupa

It’s late, but it’s here, the HOTSPROTSTAKES Podcast, Episode 7! This week we mourn the impending death of the Taco Bell Naked Chicken Chalupa, talk about how much of a dud the NBA Trade Deadline was, our hopes for the NHL Trade Deadline, and our favorite career modes in spots video games. So grab a coffee and your bluetooth headphones, its HOTSPROTSTAKES Podcast time! Continue reading HOTSPROTSTAKES Podcast 7: RIP Naked Chicken Chalupa

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Old Time Hockey announces PlayStation release date, price

A couple months back we broke the news that something called V7 Studios was making a throwback hockey game that would be available for download, and remain relatively cheap.

Well, the studio went quiet for a while and published some new updates to the teams, rosters, and overall game, because as I said at the time, it looked exactly like the movie ‘Slap Shot’ in video game form.

Well they finally announced a launch date and price…at least for people with PlayStation 4.

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The time I saw Magic Johnson at a CBA game

In case you missed it earlier today, Magic Johnson has taken over some role for the Los Angeles Lakers where he apparently now runs most aspects of the team and will certainly turn them into even more of a laughing-stock than they currently are.

But that’s not why we’re here. I’m here to tell you the story about the time I saw Magic Johnson at a Continental Basketball Association game in Muskegon, Michigan back when I was in high school.

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HOTSPROTSTAKES Podcast 6: Indoor football, alternative sports video games and NBA All-Star weekend

The HOTSPROTSTAKES Podcast is back for Episode 6, we’ve almost made as many podcasts as Star Wars has movies! And just because the NFL season is over, you thought we were done talking football. WRONG! SAD! This week we talk about the Indoor Football League and the team that is letting fans vote on what plays are called, the results of our Alternative Sports Video Game … Continue reading HOTSPROTSTAKES Podcast 6: Indoor football, alternative sports video games and NBA All-Star weekend

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Fans call plays, storm field in the 1st quarter and Norm MacDonald announces. The IFL started with a bang

It’s only February 17, but we may have just witnessed the sporting event of the year last night in the Indoor Football League.

The league kicked off its 2017 season in the most bizarre, amazing, and entertaining way you could have possibly imagined.

The fans called the plays, the fans and players stormed the field, and camera crews tried to show a doctor working on an injured player.

And that was just the first half.

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HOTSPROTSTAKES announces A&W Restaurants as the unofficial official restaurant of HOTSPROTSTAKES.com

In a landmark partnership that I just made up, and because the good folks at @awrestaurants are an awesome follow on Twitter and in real life, HOTSPROTSTAKES.com is proud to announce they have named A&W Restaurants as the site’s unofficial official restaurant.

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HOTSPROTSTAKES Draft: Alternative sports video games

With football season over and most sports that are playing slogging towards the end of their respective regular season, the staff here at HOTSPROTSTAKES decided it was time to pick some of our favorite alternative sports video games.

The rules were simple: Alternative sports games, like Blitz, NBA Jam or any of the Mario sports game, not simulations or attempted simulations like NHL 94 or old Madden Games. Five rounds, snake draft.

If you picked a series like say, SSX, you get all of the games in that series, this saves us from arguing over slight variations of the game that are really the same game but just made kind of different two years later so they could have more money.

Here’s how the draft went down.

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