Category: Blog Posts

Triple Treat

It’s not all that often that a horse racing story gets top billing, but it’s not all that often that a horse wins the Triple Crown of racing, the Kentucky Derby, The Preakness and...

The Niner

Herein lies a tale of a mysterious, deadly, often misunderstood force of nature, The Niner. No, it’s not a profile of Joe Montana. Or any other member of the San Francisco 49ers. And it’s...

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...