I haven’t posted in a few weeks, as I’ve been pretty busy, and probably will be for at least a couple more weeks, so this may be my only post this month. We’ll see. But, I thought I’d throw out a few things for now.
First, I normally try to link most everything I can [...]

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I haven’t found time to post the last week or so. Probably won’t as much in the next week or two, either. On top of that, I haven’t been able to log in for the last 24 hours or so, which hindered this being posted earlier. So, here’s a few items from [...]

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It’s no secret to those who know me that I hate “Reality TV”. Primarily because it’s far from reality and the participants are usually shallow, immature people. “Reality TV” has brought us such fine entertainment as “Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire?”, “The Bachelor”, “Survivor”, “Joe Millionaire” and “Man vs Beast” - all shows that [...]

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Sportscenter finished up the recap of the Duke-Virginia game - highlighting J.J. Redick’s 40 points - by saying “anything you can do, I can do better.” This provided the segue to the Gonazaga-Portland recap, where they highlighted Adam Morrison’s 42 point game.Now, I mentioned the race for player of the year in college basketball recently, [...]

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The average sports fan probably is unaware of this, but the 2006 Australian Open is almost over. Sure, some may have noticed it on ESPN2 late in the evenings as they scolled through the program guide. But for the most part, nobody in America really cares. The NFL playoffs are in progress, and the beginning [...]

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Well, Agassi could not quite pull it off. He played another great match in the semi’s to knock off Genepri, but Federer, as expected, was just too much. He held on up until the tiebreak in the 3rd, and it seemed Federer just jumped to another level to win it in four sets. I noticed [...]

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Being a tennis player and fan, I’ve always loved the grand slams. I used to watch more tennis in years past, but now I pretty much limit it to the grand slams. And while Wimbledon, with all of its tradition, is the most celebrated, my favorite has always been the U.S. Open.
Perhaps one of the [...]

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I stayed up past midnight (highly unusual for me these days) and watched the Andre Agassi-James Blake quarterfinal match at the U.S. Open last night, and all I can saw is “Wow!” What a great match. I’ll say more on this later…

Thinking more about the devastation along the gulf coast, and the lives lost and [...]

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