No Super Bowl for Arizona, Booker trade value never higher, Paul McCartney on SNL, more…

Remember when our little slice of heaven was in the Super Bowl rotation? 1996, 2008, 2015, and 2023, we put on our civic pride to host the biggest United States sporting event. Heads were on beds, golf courses were filled, and private jets were stacked on top of one another at airports around the Valley. Well, um, er, those days are gone…

In March, the NFL announced that Las Vegas would host the 2029 Super Bowl, joining LA (2027) and Atlanta (2028). Today, the League awarded the 2030 game to Nashville. The awarding of Vegas happened in our own backyard during the Owners meetings at the Biltmore. A shot at Phoenix? Yes. Kansas City will unveil a new fixed roof stadium in 2031. The Hunt family ties to the history of the League make them a shoe-in… 

Where do we fall in line for the next available big game? Who is going to lead the charge for Arizona? The Owner of our NFL team couldn’t even get ONE  game on the Primetime TV schedule for 2026. Feels like all the losing and shenanigans off the field over the last 10 years have taken a toll on the league’s view of Phoenix. I’m guessing that if Vegas or LA gets an owners meeting, they won’t be handing us a Super Bowl in their backyard…

The business of recruiting high school football players continues to evolve. The top lineman in the state of Arizona can have a 90-minute press conference in late May and announce he’s staying home. Get back to me in mid-December when Oregon and Texas A&M open up the checkbook and move the decimal point right before signing day. Fact of life now in college sports…

If you’re the Suns watching how the Spurs and Thunder are stacked, you have to be open to trading Devin Booker. You will never get more for Booker than right now. You have to bottom out and retool. The idea that bringing Giannis to Phoenix and pairing him with Booker would give them a fighting chance sounds great in fantasy land. You’d have to gut your roster as we saw with the Kevin Durant deal.  What might’ve been if the Durant trade didn’t go down and DeAndre Ayton wasn’t a complete miss at the top of the 2018 draft? It’s pretty clear to me that current ownership is content with having a nice regular season team that will fill seats, but never win a title. I saw the same approach by Robert Sarver in handling Steve Nash, who was much older, but the owner didn’t want to lose the lower bowl of season ticket holders, which led to the Decade of Decline. Is there anyone on the Suns right now who could handle SGA? Is there anyone on the Suns right now that can handle Wemby? No, and no, would be the correct answer. Pick up the phone and call Washington and inquire about the number one pick in next months draft…

Paul McCartney’s Saturday Night Live performance was brilliant. Who are we to say he shouldn’t keep on performing? 83 years young and still singing. Anyone who ripped him doesn’t appreciate the art…

I’ve been reading  Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. It’s not the first time that I’ve opened it up. A great reminder of some basic fundamentals that I sometimes forget in the busyness of life…

If you missed Sunday’s 60-Minutes segment on Polymarket, do yourself a favor and check it out…

The NFL continues to push the average fan to the margin. Not only by making them pay for access on streaming apps, but by yanking home games to play around the globe. A Rams-49ers game in Australia rather than in the States is nothing more than League business. Most NFL fans I know are tied in through fantasy football and betting. The art of the sport is lost…