Archive for the 'Sports' category

Rajon !

Big ups to ShaggyShaw (@twitter) for bringing this to my attention..
Rondo: once a pimp, always a pimp.

Bungles: No Playoffs, and No Real Estate Tycoons Either

It’s been a long arduous couple of years for two seemingly unrelated parties in American life.
But in a another pathetic moment for both Chris Henry’s career and the national mortgage/housing crisis, Henry’s crib just sold for 2/3 of appraised value at a foreclosure auction — and the bank itself was the only bidder. (is that [...]

I Never Knew..

.. that Franco Harris’ 1972 “Immaculate Reception” was a play on words.
In researching various Christian doctrines on Wikipedia today, I run into this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_conception

Kentucky Derby 2008

I am one lucky S.O.B.
This is the photo from the “infield chalet” where myself, Meredith, Karl & Katie watched Big Brown run away from the field down the backstretch.. while hanging out with Big Brown’s owners & their families !

Thanks so much to JC Faulkner of Quint Events for the hookup. [...]

More Old School Stuff…

Here’s the text from a funny “article” my father sent created after I lost our little quasi-Pentathlon in the summer before I went to college (he’s obviously an amateur comedian himself — where’d you think I got it?) And I’m still getting my tail kicked in golf 13 [...]

A Belated Memorial

for skiing pioneer Doug Coombs.
He showed this sweet video of his Grand Teton ski descent to a packed house in Jackson Hole in January 2006. I’ll never forget it.

Best Sports Spot Ever

I remember well when the Randy Moss / Jason Williams / Waylon Jennings commercial came out..  Fitting, since it’s my favorite song.  Several times, I dove across the living room in NYC to push “record” on our VCR as the opening guitar strums played. Never got the recording, but liked it so much that I [...]

BCS? Booo !

My football comments from two years ago are finally relevant in mainstream media.
There has been renewed speculation of positive changes to the ridiculous way college football is settled each year (ie. some method to not vote for our national champ each year). Friends know that I have been bashing the perpetually inconclusive BCS/AP system [...]

Chief Channel Changer

Yeah, that was my job description out at Damons in Charlottesville around 1996. What game do you wanna watch, dude!!??

Ky Boys Go Aggro

As you know from LSU/Arkansas/Louisille, this isn’t the lovable, laughable Kentucky football squad of the past few decades. They are for real.
Stevie Johnson is one reason why.