Kicking the Wickets with Yogi
I miss the elocution of Yogi Berra. He once said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Last night …
Category Archives: Sports
More than enough
I can envision a time when I stop watching sports, because it’s become self-congratulatory, narcissistic, all-important, and ugly. And then …
Seven Reasons Dez Bryant did NOT Catch that Football
This was a football catch for the ages in a million backyards, a thousand Friday nights, and a hundred campus Saturdays, just not according to the technocrats at the National Football League.
Icebergs in Corn Fields
When Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go’s sings “Heaven is a place on earth” I stop whatever I’m doing and sing …
The Color of God
The bus crossed the 7th street bridge and I peered over the rail through an open window at the eddies …
Demigods & Champions
I love to watch athletes compete…any age, any level…just lay it all out there and try, find a way, play …
1967 World Series
Tonight the Red Sox, my favorite Junior Circuit team, and the Cardinals, my favorite all-time baseball team, square off in …
Building a Golf Course in My Backyard – part 3
Golf balls litter our course like orphaned Easter eggs. There is a bucket of balls sitting on the first tee …
Building a Golf Course in My Backyard ~ Part 2
“Golf is a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the …
Building a Golf Course in My Backyard ~ Part 1
My neighbors have questioned my sanity of late, asking what I’m doing in my backyard. The short answer is that …
