And on the 8^th day, Jesus/Yahweh/Allah/Vishnu/Ron Burgundy said “Let there be Sports blogs.” Since apparently no one else in their mid 20’s was listening, we took it upon ourselves to create Straight Up Sports. And if that last sentence isn’t entirely true, well, we still created Straight Up Sports, and your dumb ass somehow wandered over here.

We're a group of kids in our mid/late 20s who love to talk sports and live in the NYC and the surrounding area. Why are we different from anyone else? Damn if we know, but unlike your punk ass, we took the time to write a blog, so here we are.

New York City is a diverse community filled with millions of people, many of whom are assholes. Likewise, Straight Up Sports is just as diverse, but with a higher asshole to people ratio. And if that’s not true, we’re still a batch of inexplicably angry white guys, with a not-too-content Indian and two white chicks to boot.

But we all have various rooting interests that range from the usual New York teams (Yankees, Mets, Giants, Knicks) to the Pittsburgh Black & Gold to the Red Sox to the Devils, and everything in between.

You want game previews, we (sometimes) do that. You want commentary, we've got (unsubstantiated) commentary. Want to know why the Jets drafted another tight end in the first round? We’ll tell you. The latest shrewd business decision by Brian Cashman? Assuming we have nothing else going on, we'll sign for that too.

Our main focus is sports, but if you know what sort of crappy lives we lead, you’ll know that our bitterness extends far beyond professional sports. Even when there are no sports going on, we’ll be bitching and moaning about everything from our crappy cube life to crappy pop culture to whatever craptacular topic grinds our gears at a given point in time.

Straight Up Sports -- Sports and everything else for New Yorkers and everyone else.