Halfbak3d Sports

  • MLS Flipped the Calendar — We Flipped the Questions
    MLS finally flipped the calendar, and you could feel the whole soccer world tilt like a restaurant table with one short leg. Not dramatic. Not chaotic. Just that quiet shift that tells you, “Yeah, this was overdue.” For twenty-eight years,…
  • Boom Been Finessed #1: A Buccaneer in Buffalo’s Frozen Waters
    Every empire needs a storyteller, and Tampa’s been overdue for one who speaks in smoke, pride, and a little bit of unhinged sea-salt honesty. This column is the start of that. Around here, we don’t break down football the way…
  • Monday Morning Regret
    Some weekends don’t just end — they detonate quietly and let the smoke follow you into Monday. You don’t wake up refreshed. You wake up like the sports gods ran your emotional credit report and laughed. And somewhere between pouring…
  • Crypt Keeper Jerry: Episode Three – Outsmarting Failure
    Jerry Jones sits back in his throne-chair—half executive leather, half ancient sarcophagus—and folds his hands like he’s about to announce the cure for losing. JERRY (big Texas showman drawl): “Well now… lemme tell y’all somethin’ important. Somethin’ ah learned one…
  • Chant Thieves — Episode 3: The Night Bryant–Denny Heard Its Own Echo
    September eighth, two-thousand-twelve — the air over Tuscaloosa hung heavy enough to chew. Alabama fans filed in with the usual confidence, the kind that doesn’t even call itself confidence anymore. When you’ve spent half a decade breaking scoreboards over your…

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