Morgen on June 17, 2010
Update: Come from behind team victory. There is every reason to believe that the Lakers will win game 7 tonight, and it may not even be close, but I have to hand it to the Celtics. When they’ve been at their best in this series they’ve put on one of the best displays of team defense I’ve ever seen. But the Lakers are simply a better team, and in Kobe [...]
Morgen on December 3, 2009
I’m not a big fan of Wanda Sykes, and I really, really don’t like celebrity sex scandals…but I had to laugh at Sykes’ early take on the Tiger Woods affair. And since this aired on her show on Saturday night, she deserves extra credit for deducing the real story before the sordid details began to leak out: (H/T: Back Porch Fanhouse) And a bonus clip courtesy of Hot Air, Chinese [...]
Morgen on October 2, 2009
“The shock of Chicago’s elimination was greater for the fact that it came in the first round. And greater for the fact that President Obama had taken valuable hours from his packed and tense political schedule to travel to Copenhagen. His legendary powers of persuasion will be said to have failed him, though in reality it will be Chicago’s bid that failed him. Nonetheless, this is a moment which allows [...]
Phil on June 3, 2009
This is a tale of two cities. These two cities could not have been more different. One is a fairy book story filled with hope, the other a nightmare of a horror story, the likes of which this city continues to live. Cleveland is known for its sports failures. But in a city where these sports failures range from the expected to the heart-breaking, it’s amazing that a sore loser [...]
Morgen on April 23, 2009
Wait – I think that’s actually Lance Armstrong.
Cindy on June 27, 2008
During the current UEFA Cup (European Soccer Championships) held in Austria, a power outage during gale force winds, knocked out approximately 18 minutes of the semi-final match between Germany and Turkey, which left over 30 million people across the globe with blank screens. The head of sports for German television station ZDF called it “the most infuriating malfunction imaginable.” I can only imagine the complete mayhem, and barrage of foul [...]
Scott on April 1, 2008
OK, I might as well throw up this other baseball oriented post ’cause it’s the only other baseball-related cultural reference that I’ve got. I’ve had a lot of fun teaching this poem over the years. It’s very clever. If you want other baseball posts, check out the Field of Dreams post from guest writer Tim and my tribute to Abbott and Costello. CASEY AT THE BAT by Ernest Lawrence Thayer [...]
Scott on April 1, 2008
Tim stepped in to guest-post on a subject that is near and dear to his (and his wife Cindy’s) heart…the game of cricket. It seems weird to me, but these two can’t get enough of the game. If they drank more tea I would think they were British! Alright, just kidding! Tim posted on baseball, which is a game that he loves. I don’t really care for baseball too much, [...]
Tim - t.q.o. on April 1, 2008
Being that it is April Fools’ Day, and being that I am a bit of a self-proclaimed fool for the game of baseball, and being that it is opening week for the 2008 MLB season, John and Scott have graciously allowed me to post one of my favorite movie monologues of all time… It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again…
John on January 31, 2008
The Anchoress reminds us all of that half-time a few years ago when the greatest band in the world (who happen to come from Ireland) captured the American zeitgeist perfectly. I know people love to hate him, but Bono is the only guy in the world and U2 the only band who can walk into the center of American gladiatorial and commercial combat and turn the whole thing into a [...]
John on November 30, 2007
That’s what one sports writer discussing the shooting death of Washington Redkins Sean Taylor calls the shooters: There’s a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same. [...]No, we don’t know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor’s death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it’s no different than if you [...]
Scott on April 5, 2006
This article is worth a quick read. It provides a nice peak into the life of Tiger Woods and the dynamic between himself and his parents. I don’t golf. I don’t know much about the sport aside from what I have picked up over the years and catching an odd bit of the occasional televised tournamment. (I have “golfed” a couple times, much to the giggling delight of my patient [...]
