As I, along with the rest of the sports universe, await the NCAA College Football Playoff selection committee’s decision on which twelve teams will get a shot at a national championship and who will be at home watching with all the rest of us, I got to watch the Indiana Hoosiers, surely to be anointedContinue reading “As if That Wasn’t Enough…”
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Funny Bone
Why all the hate between late-night talk show hosts and the president and his policies and tactics? It used to be, not that long ago, that comics joked and made wisecracks, we laughed, thought how clever, and moved on. What happened to that? These are just highly paid entertainers that started amusing us starting inContinue reading “Funny Bone”
Welcome to the Jungle
It looks like we have run out of third-world countries to send our deportees to, so what to do? Not to worry. We will send them to the next best thing….Indiana. Remember when steroids used to be an everyday news story? I was never good, big, or fast enough of a football player to entertainContinue reading “Welcome to the Jungle”
Horse Sense
Where else but Texas? Neo-Nazi Governor Greg Abbott calls the legislators to assemble and vote on the Almost Final Solution whereby they rearrange district boundaries that will allow the Republicans to overcome the advantage and gain five more seats. So the Democrats run away and play hide-and-seek. What are you, idiots? Four years old? ThatContinue reading “Horse Sense”
The Oracle
Don’t think too highly of myself, do I? With my birth month and Mother’s Day in our rear-view mirrors, a North Carolina woman says hold everything…. She gets called in to her daughters’ school because of an alleged fighting situation which needed to be addressed immediately. So what does next years’ Mother of the YearContinue reading “The Oracle”
Without Fail
No matter how great you think you are, there is always someone, somewhere out there, who is better. I saw it a lot of it growing up as I started competitive tackle football at age seven. I would have started at age six, but I was caught trying to forge my parents’ signatures on theContinue reading “Without Fail”
Great (and not so great) Expectations
It was only the first official Premier League football match away at Portman Road under the Amorim reign as manager. The Reds were very lucky to escape Southampton with a 1-1 draw, despite scoring in the first two minutes of play. Not until the final ten minutes of play did United revive a dead offenseContinue reading “Great (and not so great) Expectations”
One Summer in Japan
Or just, the neighborhood, which is what we knew it as. We were living on Showa Air Force Base in the early sixties and this shorty is about our neighborhood there. Everybody knew everyone who lived in the neighborhood and recognized everyone’s’ kids on the street and outside playing in groups. Remember that? Playing outside?Continue reading “One Summer in Japan”
Anger
As promised (I’m really trying to get better following through on my promises) I am starting TODAY 2/10 with the first audio installment of my book which I am attempting to narrate myself. Look for my installments to majorly increase in quality as I learn what the hell I am doing. Remember “good things comeContinue reading “Anger”
