I have been busy, which is why I’ve been away, Gentle Reader, but I’m glad I didn’t write yesterday because I would have been wrong and had to issue an apology today. I was going to write a post on how boring Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby was because of a lack of star […]

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As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the Green Bay Packers management is between a rock and a hard place. Brett Favre has stated that he wants to return to play football again, but the Packers told the quarterback that the team had “moved on” after he announced his retirement and have committed to […]

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At first, it appeared that CBS made a decision to release college basketball analyst Billy Packer and replace him with Clark Kellogg, but apparently, all parties knew last year that this would be Packer’s last year, his 32nd Final Four providing commentary. To his credit, Packer said nothing about his future, not even after the […]

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To many, this is a big weekend in the Chicago area. Some 75,000 people are going to the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois to watch the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. Tonight, there will be a 300 mile race and tomorrow, a 400 mile race that will be broadcast on TNT. In case you’re asking […]

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Professional sports franchises are unique animals. One the one hand, they are for-profit institutions whose primary concern is making money for its shareholder(s). On the other hand, they are “public trusts,” in which the fans, the city, every citizen is a quasi-shareholder – the average guy has no money invested, but the fan invests in […]

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To me, Seattle is a funny town. Yes, my brother-in-law and sister-in-law live there with two of my nieces, and I do like it out there. The populace is very liberal; perhaps to laid back for my taste; but fairly cosmopolitan. There is, of course, the weather; and I must say that it does rain […]

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It was an incredible fortnight that ended yesterday South West of London at the All England Lawn and Tennis Championships, known colloquially as Wimbledon. On the women’s side, we saw upset after upset with only one constant: the Williams sisters inexorably march through the brackets with the prospect of meeting each other in the final. […]

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