In this country, people actually paid attention to women’s soccer as a result of the run by the U.S. team. In a record-shattering World Cup final, the U.S. Women’s soccer team beat Japan 5-2 last Sunday, and even I, soccer ignoramus, watched the first 15 minutes in which the U.S. women blitzkrieg’d Japan with four […]

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I am going to take a couple of days off from the site, but I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy July 4th holiday. With the Confereate Flag going away, the Affordable Care Act standing the test of a frivolous lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court, and of […]

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One of my favorite overlooked movies is a Roy Scheider, John Badham directed thriller called “Blue Thunder.” The film was about a plot to bring military style helicopters to Los Angeles (sounds eerily prescient, doesn’t it). Anyway, the part of the tired, put upon sergeant was played by the great Warren Oates in his final […]

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Of course, I pay very little attention to golf – I have never had any interest in it. But I am often interested in its personalities: Tiger, Rory McIllroy, and Phil Mickelson. The big left hander who always looks to me like Hugh Grant having a bad day has not won a major tournament in […]

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I have argued for years that Pete Rose belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame, because no one could prove that he bet on baseball while amassing 4,258 hits, the most in the game. After years of lies and denial, Rose admitted betting on baseball several years ago, but he said he only bet while […]

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Sports are supposed build teamwork and sportsmanship. Rules of fair play are important for young people to learn to help navigate the world they live in. Unfortunately, winning seems to be the only thing that is found to be important, and the corporate attitude that anything is fair as long as you win, goes against […]

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Soccer is, on the face of it, a simple game. All you need are a ball, open space and something to act as a goal: two poles, lines on a wall, anything to distinguish a goal area works. I believe that this is one of the main reasons for the sport’s popularity, especially in impoverished […]

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