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• Will oxygen chamber help Tiger Woods’ game? Which game?: Will a specially designed oxygen chamber in his Florida home help Tiger Woods’ game? Which game? The real question is: Why would Tiger Woods include plans for an oxygen chamber [...]
• Anyone reading this set to run NYC marathon Sunday?: Many years ago, I started walking to lose some weight. Then the walk turned into a jog, and the jog into a slow run. Within four months, I had lost [...]
• Which came first — sports or chips, dips, other snacks?: I swear, at the end of every weekend during the fall, I begin to suspect that major sports programs, especially football and baseball, were actually invented to prosper the chips [...]
• Fans rejoice — football season only weeks away: All of us football fans out there are rejoicing — the new football season is only weeks away. (Caveat, when I say “football,” I’m talking about American football, not the [...]
• Economy continues to tank, so let’s get to important stuff — Super Bowl Sunday coming up!: Enough of all the doom and gloom. If, as all the pundits liberal and conservative alike are saying, there’s no quick fix for the economy, let’s move on to the [...]
• I’ve never understood obsessions some people have about sports equipment: Many years ago, I went through a “running phase” — a period of a couple of years when I started jogging for health and weight loss which turned into a [...]
• Amazing — the St. Louis Cardinals have exploded into the season this year: With a record of 22-12, my St. Louis Cardinals have exploded into the baseball season far ahead of what I or most people imagined possible. They are leading the Chicago [...]
• Perfect example of ‘witch hunt’? Look at Clemens-Congress fiasco: What a circus. Just think: We pay all those bozos in Congress to ferret out all the corruption and possible corruption going on in, uh, well, uh — Major League [...]
• Well, at least baseball’s coming soon to get us through the NFL off-season: All the baseball hearings and Congressional shock over drug enhancements aside, it is almost time to start spring training. Though it’s a pale substitute for NFL football, at least major [...]
• Right now I’m suffering withdrawal from NFL football: Oh, the weather outside is frightful — and without my weekly fix of NFL football, I certainly don’t find it all that delightful. Anyone else out there suffering NFL withdrawal? [...]
• Now that the hearing is over — who do you think ‘won’ in Clemens v. McNamee?: What a dog and pony show that was! I hope you got to watch some of it, just to reflect on this: Do we really pay those folks in Congress [...]
• So who’s winning the Clemens v. McNamee pitch before Congress?: I actually sat her and watched about an hour and a half of the Congressional testimony by MLB pitching great Roger Clemens in his faceoff with former trainer Brian McNamee. [...]
• What an amazing Super Bowl game that was — and the ‘little guys’ won it: For a team named “the Giants,” yesterday’s Super Bowl winners were really more like David going up against the mighty Goliath, New England. Sure enough, David pulled off a big [...]
• Not all sports stories are happy upsets — some in 2007 were just upsetting: I don’t care if you’re fit and having fun on the ski lifts or aging and getting around with a stair lift, if you’re an NFL Football fan, you can’t [...]
• What a great year to be a fan of NFL Football — thank you, Chargers: Wow. If you’re a fan of professional football in America, you must be shaking your head in amazement as I am over yesterday’s NFL playoffs, thanks especially to the San [...]
• Never mess with heroes — and Roger Clemens would be one: I don’t like it when people mess around with the handful of sports figures, movie stars, etc., that I consider “heroic” because of their accomplishments and/or character. Roger Clemens would [...]
• Ah, well, the Redskins faltered against the Seahawks — but there’s always next season: I hoped the Washington Redskins would continue their great end-of-season comeback and make it through the first round of the NFL playoffs. In fact, I confidently predicted they would beat [...]
• Okay, all you Redskins fans out there, tomorrow’s the big game: I’m an avid Kansas City Chiefs fan, when it comes to NFL football. But I’ve always had a special place in my heart for the Washington Redskins. This season, the [...]
• Did I call ‘em or did I not? But the Orange Bowl score failed me: Big night last night for America — Barack Obama took another step toward the presidency by winning the Iowa caucuses, and, yeah, Happy Huckabee did the same. On the sports [...]
• Yup, Iowa caucuses proceeding as predicted — Orange Bowl, I’m not so sure: Just as I predicted — the pundits are calling Iowa for Huckabee on the GOP side and Obama on the Democratic side. One “breaking news” email I get suggested that [...]
• So — Go Mizzou! — how are the football bowl games working out for you? Go Mizzou!: As an avid football fan — Go Mizzou! Go Mizzou! — I’ve been fairly happy with this season’s college bowl games so far. I was especially pleased by the Cotton [...]
• Hey, who wouldn’t love this year’s Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow?: I was just reading a story about the sort of “hero worship” aura surrounding Tim Tebow, the University of Florida quarterback who won the 2007 Heisman Trophy. (If you’re not [...]
• So far, drug-use report hasn’t changed the shape of pro sports world: How wonderful — only one day after the steroid/drug use report on MLB was released, the sports world has rallied around, soundly condemned all athletes who use such stuff, and [...]
• Can we really protect the ‘integrity’ of Major League Baseball — or any pro sport?: Big surprises in the report on steroid use and the use of “performance enhancing drugs” in Major League Baseball, eh? — NOT! I wonder how many years we want to [...]
• Michael Vick probably got even more than he deserved: Former Atlanta Falcons Quarterback Michael Vick got his sentence for his role as the money-man in a dog fighting/dog killing business — 23 months in prison. But the prison time [...]
• Kansas a college football powerhouse? Who would have thought it?: Okay, I’m a football fan. By “football,” I mean American football, of course. The kind of football played in helmets and pads, with lots of hitting, passing, and kicking — [...]