Thyrl's Bio
Greg "Thyrl" Nelson brings his patented “Mobtown Twist” to the weekday airwaves this summer while continuing his unique perspective and delivery every Saturday morning. Born and raised in Essex, he is a lifelong Baltimore sports diehard and an avid follower of baseball, football, basketball, boxing, and MMA. Thyrl joined the WNST family in 2006 after he was finalist in the “So You Wanna Be a Sports Talk Show Host” contest.
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Upsets and Underdogs Have Ruled the ACC and Big East Tourneys so far. What Might ...
Read It »Can you jinx a team that already hasn’t won in 12 seasons? It seems that ...
Read It »Ranking the Gary Williams Era Terps’ NBA Careers, and Where Might Greivis Vasquez Fit on ...
Read It »If Kurt Warner doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame, then they should just blow ...
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Upsets and Underdogs Have Ruled the ACC and Big East Tourneys so far. What Might That Mean For the Terps on Friday? ... Read More »
Can you jinx a team that already hasn’t won in 12 seasons? It seems that Tom Verducci and the folks at Sports Illustrated are trying, as Matt Wieters graces the cover of this week’s edition. Hopefully it’ll be the first of many memorable Wieters covers, but probably worth picking up and tucking away nonetheless. The ... Read More »
Ranking the Gary Williams Era Terps’ NBA Careers, and Where Might Greivis Vasquez Fit on the List? ... Read More »
If Kurt Warner doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame, then they should just blow the whole building up and start over. ... Read More »
It’s time for the O’s to step up to the plate and pay Jeremy Guthrie before they have to sit across from him in arbitration and try to reach into his pocket again. ... Read More »
It’s probably kind of fitting that The Who will be playing halftime of this season’s Super Bowl, one in which the scoreboard could easily resemble that of a pinball machine. Indeed when the Colts and Saints assemble in Miami in just under two weeks, it may be time not only to throw out the record ... Read More »
As a beaten down Orioles fan, I’m torn when it comes to the latest round of labor unrest in the NFL. Forced now to endure a decade plus of losing, largely due to the market disparities between the Orioles and key divisional rivals, it’s tough not to be intrigued about the possibility of an uncapped ... Read More »
The NFL is a copycat league, there’s no denying that. Every off season, like clockwork, teams of little fortune try like mad to emulate the successful practices that they’ve seen implemented by other clubs. It’s a league of trends, and those left behind said trends are likely to find themselves out of contention and likewise ... Read More »
For those who were stung especially deeply by the fact that the Ravens departure from the playoffs came at the hands of the Colts, brace yourselves, things are going to be much worse as the week wears on. ... Read More »
Are the league, the fans and the media being too quick to judge Gilbert Arenas? ... Read More »
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