The Agony and the Ecstasy
Going into the 2016 World Series, you knew two things had to happen. One was that one long suffering team was going to win its first championship in many, many decades, and the other...
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The Worst Play in Football
There are many types of plays out there that have occurred in games this year that could be designated as the absolute “worst” play in football. There are stupid penalties. There are stupidly thrown...
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Death Strikes the American Dream
Before this past weekend, two distinctly different people from two distinctly different sports could easily have been described as active participants in the American Dream. One was on the road to greatness and was...
Post Olympic Thoughts
The city of Rio sure looked colorful and beautiful on TV. But you have got to talk about the elephant in the room. There sure were a lot of empty seats… pretty much at...
More Olympics
Some observations about some of the happenings of the Rio Olympics. Usain Bolt is deservedly getting props for being the greatest Olympic track athlete of all time. Of course, that’s because he is the...
Olympian Observations
The Olympic Games are here again. There’s something about those Olympics, which only come around every four years, that sometimes, or maybe you can even use the qualifier of usually, turns what’s supposed to...
Dy-No-Mite
The last two golf seasons of men’s golf have been dominated by the “Big Three” of Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Jordan Speight. All you need to know about their dominance of that period...
Stenson’s Masterpiece
They have been playing what we now know as the British Open (or The Open) golf tournament since 1860. To put that another way, that was one year BEFORE the beginning of the American...
No Djoke
A funny thing happened on the way to Novak Djokovic cruising through all the players at Wimbledon and helping to further fortify his name amongst the all time greats to ever play men’s tennis....
The Greatest
By definition, to be the greatest, you have to be greater than everyone else who is great. Of course, you first have to be great to even be in the conversation, and then you...
Back in the Finals Again
The two teams that nearly everybody thought were going to end up in the NBA Finals ended up arriving at the exact place that they were supposed arrive at. Two teams that were probably...
There, Their and Everywhere
There used to come a time when the San Jose Sharks would, after a very successful regular season where they often finished with stellar records and regular season point totals that often ended up...
The Killer Elite
A funny thing happened on the way to my guarantee that the San Antonio Spurs were going to be in the Western Division Finals against the Golden State Warriors for the right to be...
