Category: Blog Posts

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...

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...

Baseball and Glove

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...