When I first got out of college 20 years ago, I wanted to find ways to stay involved with wrestling. I couldn’t decide between officiating and coaching so I did the sensible thing – I did both. That lasted for two seasons when work and life made it clear that I had to give up […]
I spent much of last week on the West Coast for work, attending a conference in Vancouver. I didn’t have a ton of free time – I was busy 8 to 5 pretty much each day – but I did get some opportunities to explore the host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Here are […]
A little more than a month ago, I wrote about my disenchantment with the latest version of EA Sports’ college football video game series. I managed to plug away and finish a season with SMU (we went 8-5 or something like that and reached a bowl), then chose to take a job with Syracuse. I […]
A friend took me aside recently. She had watched two co-workers engage in an hour-long conversation about college football and wanted to ask me something. How can they do that? She really had no idea how two people could carry on a conversation about sports for so long. She admitted that she tried to get […]
I hate the phrase “have to” as in “you have to watch this show” or “you have to find this funny.” A former co-worker would always respond to comments like that with a surly, “I don’t have to do anything.” I came to adopt that philosophy, if only to upset those who get personally wounded […]
The irony of my interest in tonight’s NHL playoff Game 7 between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers is that the Rangers got me interested in the sport, but I want to see nothing more than their painful demise tonight. As I wrote a year ago, a cable channel showing the Rangers in 1979 […]
I didn’t have any plans a couple of Sundays ago. We planned on having some friends over the Saturday before to grill and hang out, so I assumed I would spend the next day napping and watching sports. Then I got a fateful phone call. Well, it wasn’t fateful, but it was intriguing. The fine […]
Well, not really, but I got a chance to see the first-ever legal mixed martial arts event in Pennsylvania Sunday. I have written that phrase a bunch of times and never thought to ask anyone if there were plenty of illegal MMA events before the regulations went into effect. Either way, I had fun and […]
I am really glad I did not troll the Intertubes for reviews of Chuck Culpepper’s book Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer before I recently read it. I should have known that anything relating to an American and soccer would engender all kinds of angst and confusion. As it was, […]