Monthly Archive: August 2014

There was The Great One.  Wayne Gretzky.  He once won nine Hart Trophy MVP awards in a ten year span of his NHL career and broke nearly every meaningful record in hockey history. No...

Well, it’s just about that time of year again. The dog day doldrums of late August summer are slowly starting to fade away as they morph into the new rebirth brought on by the...

There is a line in the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” where the French archaeologist Rene Belloq is trying to talk Indiana Jones out of doing harm to him and the stolen ARK....

The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is in trouble. They are on a downward slide and they don’t even know it. The biggest problem this Hall of Fame has is that THEY,...

Ice Bucket Challenge I love what’s happening with the ice bucket challenge. Incredible hearing about all of the money being raised by athletes, celebrities, entertainers, etc. (everybody, really) to help fight ALS, a terrible,...

How good was Joe DiMaggio? You’ve heard of his name, but unless you are a baseball historian and/or statistics freak, you probably don’t really know the details of his career, other than that he...

There is right. There is wrong. And there is road rage. A person can think he or she is right and the opponent in their conflict is wrong. Their opponent might think THEY are...

Rory McIlroy has just won his fourth major championship, the 2014 PGA, at the ripe young age of 25 years old. Right away, you know he’s in some pretty good company when you realize...

News Flash. The NCAA has just lost the Ed O’Bannon case. A decision has been handed down by a judge that says the NCAA has been unreasonably restraining trade by preventing the athletes, who...

Baseball games take too long. Statistics show the games are longer now than they were at any time in its long history. The eye test, no the butt test is saying that games are...