Monthly Archive: August 2015

Let’s Play a Game – Epilogue

Hopefully, most of you have read the four part series about the fictitious NBA all star teams of four eras from the 1960’s to the modern era as described in the articles “Let;s Play...

LeBron James

Let’s Play a Game Part 4

Just like franchise movies have sequels, so too does the “Let’s Play a Game” franchise. This is the fourth installment of our hypothetical all star team that has to play against an intergalactic super...

Let’s Play a Game Part 3

As good as Michael Jordan was during the second half of the 1980’s (he led the league in scoring four times), his teams weren’t that good and the decade really belonged to Magic and...

Let’s Play a Game Part 2

There have been three eras in pro basketball since the pre 1975 era mentioned in the last article “Let’s Play a Game Part 1. Those would be the “Magic-Bird Era” that was primarily in...

Let’s Play a Game Part 1

Let’s play a game. The game is this. It is the year 1975 and a spaceship from a foreign planet has landed on earth and the human like alien creatures tell the powers of...

Top Dog Day’s Afternoon

Jason Day was able to win the 97th playing of the PGA Championship because he discovered the secret to winning a major golf tournament in this new era of men’s golf. Yes, he played...

Major Obstacles

The PGA, the fourth and last major of this season, is going to be played this week at Whistling Straits Golf Course in Wisconsin, and I’m going to tell you all how difficult it...

The Three Wise Men

It was sad to hear the news that Frank Gifford died yesterday. By all accounts, it was a loss on several levels, for Gifford was amongst other things, an early prototype of the term...

Summer in the City

I have no idea what to write today. It is the middle of the summer. It’s hot outside. The air conditioning is not working, so it’s hot inside too. But I have to write...

Big Game Shame

There has been a whole lot of talk going on in the world these days about the incident in Zimbabwe where a big game hunting doctor from Minnesota cold-bloodedly killed a lion so he...