A quick guide for sports fans coming from out of Little Rhody. It will help you assimilate, and avoid having your ass kicked. Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but among its million residents, you have a million different opinions and attitudes. This is character building in its highest form. But when it comes […]
Since as far back as I can remember, I was a young idiot and obsessed with all sports. Little has changed, as I am still an idiot, and totally fascinated with sports from A-Z, and even more than that, if possible. While as a child I spent hours listening on radio or watching my beloved […]
As the noted philosopher Yogi Berra once said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” That applies to the recent announcement by former New England Patriots star and still beloved local hero Rob Gronkowski (check the number of his replica jerseys still in vogue at Gillette Stadium) that he would be retiring from football…again. The guy […]
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor without being sports fanatics. Puck Off The National Basketball Association and National Hockey Leagues are in their playoffs modes right now! Wow! Bow-wow! The NBA and NHL are and have always been, secondary to the gods of sports, notably the NFL […]
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor without being sports fanatics. Loyalties and Legacies “I didn’t do it for the money.” Any time you hear that from a pro athlete when he signs for another team, just respond by saying “Bullshit.” In these days, it is invariably all […]
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor without being sports fanatics. Race to the Top One doesn’t believe that former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is scheming and calculating enough to bring his racism suit against the National Football League for ignoring racial equality in hiring head […]
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor without being sports fanatics. One Hand Clapping Maybe it was the Red Sox playing in fits and starts all season long, never more so than in the American League playoffs. Or the Patriots going into the tank at season’s end, after […]
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor without being sports fanatics. War and Piste The Winter Olympics in China are set to start February 4, and the sporting aspects of this global event will likely be overshadowed by all the ancillary issues (read: fuck-ups). Yes, we all want […]
The newest celeb to join the Coronavirus Denier/Abuser Hall of Fame is star quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers. (Aw shucks, lost to Vikings Sunday? So sad.) He’s a surefire future member of a different Hall of Fame, that of the National Football League. But the NFL doesn’t base their selections on intelligence. […]
This column is for non-sports fans who would like some enlightenment and hopefully humor without being sports fanatics. The French-born educator, philosopher and author Jacques Barzun once wrote of what was known as our country’s National Pastime: Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball… No more. Major League […]