Austin Kent - Editor-In-Chief

July 26, 2010 by Austin Kent

Amare Stoudemire is an expensive bundle of generously damaged goods, so it comes as no surprise that the New York Knicks are guarding their most recent investment with a desperate passion that only a team weeks removed from the biggest heart-break in franchise history could. Give them credit first of...

July 13, 2010 by Austin Kent

We've all been there, combing through the impractically lit carbon-freezing chamber of a landing station on Planet Bespin when out of an ominous-looking cloud of fog comes the silhouette of destiny waiting to smack us in the face with the biggest choice of our lives. It's terrifying, but more importantly...

June 10, 2010 by Austin Kent

Stephen Strasburg made an appearance in Washington D.C. on Tuesday and proceeded to wreak havoc in every awesome way possible. It was more or less expected, but nevertheless the results were a pleasant surprise. On one single night, Stephen Strasburg was at once a caroling child singing on Christmas Eve...

February 3, 2010 by Austin Kent

Over the course of the past 100 or so years, sports fans have been really quite fortunate. Considering there are only so many potential outcomes of a given league, it would seem likely that repeats are eventually bound to occur. We've seen underdogs slay giants and all-time greats retire on...

January 22, 2010 by Austin Kent

When life hands you lemons, it's a subtle sign that life really wanted Allen Iverson to start in the All-Star Game. How else would you explain Rajon Rondo coming off the bench in one of the weakest All-Star voting categories in recent memory? Regardless of the injustice, it's recommended...

January 11, 2009 by Austin Kent

I've been a dog person for about as long as I've been a person and certainly longer than I've been a people person. When I found out that the Toronto Raptors were bringing back the Toronto Huskies get-up for a few games this season I assumed that I would fall...

December 3, 2009 by Austin Kent

I'm assuming there's a reason things are the way they are that I just don't understand yet, but until it either changes or I figure it out, the NBA All-Star Game voting process is officially my new nemisis (you're off the hook Gypsy That Cursed Paul Millsap). Where do we...

November 23, 2009 by Austin Kent

Hey, look, November is more than half over and Brandon Jennings - if numbers are to be trusted - is a legitimate force in the NBA. Other words: It's ten games into the 2009-10 campgain and the Milwaukee Bucks are third in the Eastern Conference at 8-3. Does this not strike anybody...

September 14, 2009 by Austin Kent

There's hullabaloo in the air about Michael Jordan finally joining the Hall of Fame - he naturally deserves it. This story here then - the one you've stumbled upon while traipsing the vast Internet desert - is about that induction to an extent, but not in the way that you...

September 8, 2009 by Austin Kent

For 50 different reasons you could hate Zach Randolph. He's boring, he's whiny and he makes $14 million more than you every single year. He's routinely arrested - never for anything impressive like train robbery or civil disobedience - but for goof-ups like drinking underage, smoking pot and driving under the...

August 25, 2009 by Austin Kent

Life in the American League East is as miserable as it gets. It's as depressing and pointless as anything has ever been or ever will be. The inevitable presence of doom that plagues its five-team membership repeatedly swallows the soul of hard-working, baseball-playing men, drowning their hopes in futility and...

July 28, 2009 by Austin Kent

Desmond Mason might as well exist in an alternate universe - better yet, a fourth dimension; technically there, but ungrasped by man. His feats go unnoticed, his accomplishments unrecognized and his presence unfelt. He is, when you think about it, one big fat "un" - unknown, unremarkable and unjustly under-appreciated....

July 6, 2009 by Austin Kent

When we look back at the 2008-09 season we're all going to remember the NBA Finals, the fact that the Cavs didn't advance and that the Lakers did. We'll remember the box scores from mid-December and the highlights of the year packaged neatly for future consumption. So many aspects of...

June 17, 2009 by Austin Kent

Does it bother Marc-Andre Fleury that when you Google images of his mom a picture of Jim Carrey in The Mask pops up? Probably not. It didn't bother him when she smacked a good luck smooch on his skinny little cheek after arriving at Mellon Arena for Game 6 either....

May 27, 2009 by Austin Kent

When I was nine years old I had a tree fort. It was pimp. In a sense, it was within those four wooden walls where the thought of this very website was conceived. Amongst those trees late in the summer of 1996 I stumbled upon a revelation that would forever...

May 13, 2009 by Austin Kent

Just when you thought deadpan comedy and the sexification of advanced baseball research would never join forces, Demetri Martin landed an acting gig playing alongside Brad Pitt in the film adaptation of Moneyball. Alright, background information. Over six years ago, best-selling author Michael Lewis told the tale of Oakland Athletics...

May 4, 2009 by Austin Kent

If John Tavares goes to the Toronto Maple Leafs, will the world collapse? You may have wondered this yourself. You're not alone. We here at The Good Point laboratories like to consider ourselves experts on each; scientists of both the known and undiscovered. Whether you consider this Slurpee-induced November diatribe...

April 27, 2009 by Austin Kent

Deep in the bowels of RealGM's NBA message board lays an unheard prophecy. "The Official I Have a Man Crush on Brandon Roy Club", it reads. "... yes I am drunk, but still, how f'ing awesome is Mr. B.Roy?" I see this because it's late on a Friday night and...

March 23, 2009 by Austin Kent

This summer, one basketball-obsessed global visionary has an idea that could change the context of international basketball as we know it. On June 10, 2009, Sean Smith - a Canadian Sport Management professor at Brock University - will present Global Village Basketball 2009. In hopes of engaging the world in ...

March 10, 2009 by Austin Kent

Cody Hodgson has his life together - think about it. Not one year removed from graduating high school, the charismatic young man with the boyish grin and chiseled jaw was a shoo-in for the program of his choice at a substantial university in Ontario. He's well-spoken, polite and people like...

March 2, 2009 by Austin Kent

It's just past two on a sunny New Orleans afternoon when, "I'm going to stop here, but if you still want to go, just keep going down St. Claude and turn left at the lights. I ain't going in there." These are the words of our escort - if you'd...

February 10, 2009 by Austin Kent

Let's get this straight, in 1991 the first web browser was invented. Though still far from the hands of the common public, this modern blueprint would put the ball in motion for a concept that would go on to overrun our society. As the number of North American households with...

January 22, 2009 by Austin Kent

Before you start reading this, go outside and punch your neighbour in the face. It doesn't matter which one. No, don't worry, I'll wait... Done? Okay, good. Do you feel better? I bet your friends are pretty jazzed right now - I am. You're a tank. After an otherwise...

January 14, 2009 by Austin Kent

As the mathematical midway point of the NBA season inches closer and closer, it's hard to refrain from gauging how particular teams stack up against those of yesteryear. With every flip of the calendar, the sample from which we draw our opinions becomes more and more telling of the true...

December 29, 2008 by Austin Kent

Every now and then the stars align above bustling Philadelphia and the seas of a luckless city's toughest competition gracefully part in order to allow the consummation of karmic redemption. Whether it be a New York Mets baseball club crashing to the National League finish line like an alpaca with a broken tibia...

December 22, 2008 by Austin Kent

When the Minnesota Wild unveiled their primary logo back in 1998, the context in which sport was perceived would, essentially, change forever. Whether we knew it or not, one man's artistic recreation of a "wild" would be enough to permanently alter the memetic landscape of professional athletics...

December 16, 2008 by Austin Kent

John Tavares wakes up every morning and goes to high school - except on the weekends of course. On weekends, the 18-year-old phenom shifts his focus from student-athlete to athlete-athlete. On weekends, the barely-old-enough-to-drive-on-his-own phenom rents videos, catches up on...

December 4, 2008 by Austin Kent

Dear Greg Oden's Neck Beard,It hasn't been two weeks since the day you hung thick and proud under the Herculean jaw of northwestern hope, but your absence in the time herein has left an uncomfortable void in many a man's life. As an admittedly judgmental basketball fan myself, I was...

November 10, 2008 by Austin Kent

When I came across my RSS feed this week something occurred to me; the websites that I and millions of others flock to on a terribly obsessive basis are more than just collections of images and text on digital screens, rather, these time-stealing entertainment factories also play significant roles in...

November 6, 2008 by Austin Kent

Nearly 25 years ago, I was born in a corner of Northern Ontario far removed from the feverish commotion of the province's south and even farther removed from any obligatory allegiance to the overwhelmingly divisive Toronto Maple Leafs. Having lived my life aware of but not particularly attached to the...

October 27, 2008 by Austin Kent

On a summery day in the end of June, amidst a limitless flurry of rookie rumors and speculation, Canadian news broke that Toronto Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo had pulled the trigger on a blockbuster deal that would see his club part ways with chronically under-used T.J. Ford in exchange...

October 20, 2008 by Austin Kent

Let's be blunt, Ticketmaster.com now charges as much as 60% of face value ticket price in sporting event convenience fees alone. Before you spend another cent, stop and think about that for as long as it takes it to sink in. Never mind the fact that the price you ended...

October 13, 2008 by Austin Kent

George Gervin deserves your respect. Not because he did for Michael Jordan what Michael Jordan did for Richard Hamilton in 2001. Heck, not for representing the San Antonio Spurs in nine straight All-Star games from 1977 to 1985 either. George Gervin deserves your respect because the tragically underrated, 1996-elected, Basketball...

September 28, 2008 by Austin Kent

For over three long years, hockey fans have anticipated the arrival of a softspoken teenager from Oakville, Ontario, a kid once widely thought talented enough to challenge the NHL's rigid age limit policy. And, for years, those fans had every reason to believe an exception for the 2008 NHL Entry...

September 2, 2008 by Austin Kent

With all the panic and general hullabaloo surrounding Yankee Stadium's impending destruction, it's hard to detach one's self from the emotional draw of the world famous venue - but then, eventually, you see it for yourself. For years The Big Ballpark in the Bronx has set the table from which...

August 17, 2008 by Austin Kent

Josh Smith is a 22-year-old power forward with four years of NBA experience, a record-setting pace for blocks and enough highlight reel footage to start up his own multimedia empire, but ask the man himself what he really needs and discover nothing more than the feeling of being wanted...

June 17, 2008 by Austin Kent

Alex Pietrangelo is a big guy, especially wearing skates, so the fact that the 18-year-old defensemen is being highly touted as one of the best linemen prospects in the NHL this season really comes as no surprise. Even less of a surprise, however, is the fact that Pietrangelo has proven...

April 15, 2008 by Austin Kent

You know exactly who I'm talking about, especially if you're a sports fan and even more so if you're Canadian - not to mention a fan of basketball, football, Canadian sport, hockey, national pride, baseball, humour, or quality television in general. After hitting the Home for the Hardcore as an...