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The Ides of March

What happens when the Senate decides they don’t like their ambitious, bombastic President? Well, 2080 years ago today, some members of the Roman Senate decided to waste their Emperor Julius Caesar in a dastardly...

Whiffs

Today was the first day pro football’s unrestricted free agents could sign with other teams. It’s a day when most of the 32 teams each throw tens of millions of dollars on the players...

Retirement News

Peyton Manning informed his team the Denver Broncos today that he would announce tomorrow that he was retiring from pro football. It was kind of expected, given that he went out on top with...

photo by Scott Ray

Leap of Faith

Today is the 29th of February. Leap Day. Of the Leap Year. I always wondered how they figured out the math to have all the other years have 365 days and the one year...

Riviera Does It Again

Every year at this time, there is a PGA Tour event held at the Riviera Country Club. It used to be called the L.A. Open. Sometimes, a sponsor takes over and changes the name...

We Get Questions

Occasionally, I get questions about various sports topics that seem interesting, but don’t seem to warrant a full post or essay. I figured I could make some comments about a few of those sports...

photo by Tewy Pictures

That A-ha Moment

There was a pop music group out of the 1980’s called A-ha that was not the worst group of that period and they were not the best. They were somewhere in the middle of...

Super D

It’s one day after the Super Bowl and just enough time has passed to look back at the big game from the perspective of one day out from the madness. Sometimes, you need that...

Turning Fifty

It’s hard to believe that the Super Bowl will be playing its FIFTIETH game this coming Sunday. That’s FIFTY years of football history since they started this thing that was once known as the...

photo by Craig ONeal

A Bad Month

January 2016 may have been a good month for the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos. They won all of their playoff games and are going to the Super Bowl. It may have been...