Bully For You
The Worst Person in the World is a flag football coach in the Los Angeles suburb of Westlake, in the San Fernando Valley. I know this because my son’s team played his last weekend. The game was over, or it…
Superb Owl
Apparently, there was some sort of football game today. The more obscure sports sites covered it, if you care about that sort of thing. There was one funny play where a guy fell on his butt! In actual news, pitchers…
Honor Roll Tide
Yes! Go ‘Bama! Roll Tide! Alabama is now the number one college in the country! Well, if you’re talking about football. If you’re talking about academics or campus life, then it’s seventy-fifth, according the US News and World Report. The…
Claim Chowder
Dallas is going to win the Super Bowl.— John Gruber (@gruber) December 18, 2011…
Let’s Take Penn State and Blow It Up
Will Bunch, the Philadelphia Daily News: Maybe putting 45,000 students in one rural town, where the economy is built on a currency of Jell-O shots, isn’t such a great idea after all. The thought I keep coming back to is…
Dear Joe Paterno’s Statue
This is the quote beside the Joe Paterno statue at Penn State: “They ask me what I’d like written about me when I’m gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was…
The unknowable human. (All of us.)
I have praised Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posnanski before, and now I’ll do it again. He is a fantastic writer, and his post from Sunday encompasses many of my feelings about the Penn State story. (Tangent: SI refers to this…
Joe Paterno and the Culture of Sports and Silence
Should Joe Paterno resign? That seems to be the question of the week. One might ask more pointedly, should Joe Paterno be held accountable for his inaction? I thought about this yesterday as I listened to conversations about the Sandusky…
Al Davis, 1929-2011
Our kind of prick. [Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, in his story about Davis today:] Once, columnist Dave Anderson of the New York Times described Davis, raised in Brooklyn, as “cunning.” When Davis saw Anderson he said, “Come on Dave —…
It’s a Great Time to Be Alive
It’s a Sunday in late September. That means there are football games to be watched today. A 1:00 game. A 4:00 game. There is pre-season hockey on tv tonight and while, yea, it’s pre-season, it’s still hockey. The sounds…
