Monthly Archive: May 2015

Final Exams

After three rounds of playoff action, pro hockey and pro basketball have finished the preliminary stuff and they both have their final match ups set. Each sport has eliminated the pretenders and have had...

FIFA Sucks

For the longest time, people in the sporting community have thought that the world governing body for soccer, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, also called FIFA for short, has been an arrogant, conniving...

Memorial Day

For a lot of people, Memorial Day is characterized by the Indy 500 auto race, regular season baseball games being played in the middle of spring, barbeque grilling, a few fireworks or parades being...

A Man of Letters

It’s not every day that you get a story about an owner of an Indy Car racing team on these pages, but it’s not every day that you get an Indy Car racing team...

Ramble On

“But I know I’ve got one thing I’ve got to do, Ramble On” Jimmy Page, Robert Plant – Led Zeppelin Just an opportunity for me to ramble on about some various things in sports,...

Your Cheatin’ Heart

“Your cheatin’ heart will tell on you.” Hank Williams **************************************** By now, almost everyone has heard of the penalties levied against the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady for their role in that...

Playuh

Rickie Fowler has always been a high quality golfer who put up a lot of solid golf scores. He’s always looked energetic and hip while doing it, and has become quite a draw for...

Death Trap

This is a story about a sports car. There, I slipped in something about sports. So now it can included in a sports column. It’s a story that can happen on any street corner...

The Aftermath

Super Saturday, the “greatest viewing day” in sports history has ended and, let’s just say, the sports we all saw on May 2, 2015 KIND OF lived up to all the hype. I say,...

Super Saturday

It is very seldom that you get the confluence of so many entertaining and important sports events all happening within about a week of each other. Maybe Masters week in golf, because you have...