Crass Commercialization
You ever stop and wonder why the NFL purposely uses a specially inflated kicking ball on kickoffs that travels much farther than the normal playing ball? And why the NFL has the ball placed...
Category: Blog Posts
Stretch Drive
Baseball has entered its September stretch drive and now the games seem to have a whole lot more meaning. Most teams have somewhere around 25 or so games to play. It’s getting close to...
September Ten
Today is not September 10, it’s September 5. It’s the first weekend in September, and I’m going to give you ten really good reasons why September is a very good month, the first week...
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...
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...
