Those lucky few who are intimate with my buffed physique may find it hard to believe that I have no idea how to “work out” at the gym that I joined three weeks ago and never go to.
Oh, I went to the weight room a couple of times in college, but there was something about pumping iron while some other guy spots you and yells things that you’d normally say in bed to encourage you that I always found kind of creepy. Continue reading
Don’t you hate it when you can see a train wreck coming and you’re powerless to do anything to prevent it? Imagine that feeling, and now imagine what it would be like if there were three train wrecks you couldn’t stop, and that’ll give you an idea of how baseball’s pennant races are shaping up this year.
You may have heard that the city of Chicago was making news because both the Cubs and the White Sox were in first place in their respective divisions. You may have heard this as recently as two days ago, in fact, because such was the case on Wednesday. Continue reading
I don’t know how, considering that college football is under way and the NFL has endured four weeks of preseason games already, but football season has snuck up on me again. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to let go of summer just yet. I want to bask in its lingering glow just a little bit longer.
The Denver Broncos and their fans can certainly empathize with my plight; they’ve been pining away for John Elway for the last five years, and much of their team’s lingering reputation is still based on the Super Bowl years of 1997 and ’98. Continue reading
I know I may be a couple of years behind on this subject, but I feel it’s finally time for me to weigh in on whether kids should play dodgeball in gym class or not.
The controversy, as you may remember, stems from the fact that dodgeball, also known as bombardment, consists of kids choosing teams, taking sides on a basketball court and then hurling big rubber balls at one another. Continue reading
This weekend (at least, I think it’s this weekend. To be honest, I haven’t been paying attention too closely) a competition of sorts will be held in Snowmass in an activity called mountainboarding.
I think, though I’m likely wrong, that this event is the U.S. Open of mountainboarding, which means that technically I could have qualified for it somehow if I only knew how to mountainboard. Continue reading
It is a tradition at the PGA Championship, which is under way this weekend at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., to have the winners of the year’s first three major golf tournaments play together in a threesome for the first two rounds.
Typically, this matchup of the year’s Masters, U.S. Open and British Open champions turns out to be the grouping that draws the big galleries on Thursday and Friday. There is almost always a golf superstar involved, and oftentimes there are three. Continue reading
Don’t you just love the whole Kobe Bryant scandal to death? I know I do. That’s why I’m so excited. Thanks to our country’s drawn-out legal process, Kobe-gate could go on for years.
The U.S. Constitution entitles everyone to a fair and speedy trial, but for good reasons, there is considerably more emphasis on fair than on speedy. Well, not so much good reasons as profitable ones.
Lawyers, for obvious reasons, benefit from lengthy court proceedings more than anyone else. Continue reading
Well, here it is a week later, and I am still shocked, I mean blown-away shocked, about the Colorado Avalanche’s signing of Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne. This is the biggest news in hockey since the 1980 miracle on ice, as far as I’m concerned.
So if I stumble over my words a bit during the course of this column, you’ll understand why. I’m not fully in charge of my faculties at the moment. And I’m not even that big of a fan of the Avalanche. Continue reading
As a sports fan, and in particular a fan of the Big East, I have been troubled by a nagging question for a number of years now. I imagine you probably have too.
What the hell is a Hokie, anyway?
I’m referring, of course, to the nickname of the sports teams at Virginia Tech, which, as a football powerhouse and the school that gave us Michael Vick, has put the name Hokies on the map. Continue reading
Let me tell you a little something about Norm Cash, an old baseball player – most notably for the Detroit Tigers in the early ’60s – and the best friend and worst enemy Sammy Sosa has right now.
Cash was a fairly undistinguished .270 hitter over the course of his career, but in 1961 he got his act together and won the American League batting title with a .361 average. He never hit better than .290 in any season after that.
Norm Cash was also, admittedly, a cheater. Continue reading