My girlfriend kind of ordered me to write about Tiger Woods this week.   I didn’t want to.   I wanted to write about the NFL, which offers up a buffet of tasty tidbits of athletic accomplishment every Sunday.   But she was adamant: “You absolutely have to write about Tiger!   That’s all anybody cares about right [...]

by Brad Eastland, The Sports Philosopher                     They’re getting ready to award the Heisman Trophy later this week.   It’s a big deal.   It’s named after John W. Heisman, a crusty, innovative, ancient football coach, whose 1916 Georgia Tech Engineers once squeaked by the Cumberland Bulldogs by the score of 222-0.   It has been won by heroic [...]

by Brad Eastland, The Sports Philosopher….       If you’re anything like me, you regard every baseball season as a carnival of historical “firsts”.   Every year there are always a bunch of neat things that happen in baseball that have never happened in baseball before.         The history of baseball has always meant more to me than [...]

by Brad Eastland, The Sports Philosopher          My little sister Marji called me the other day, to tell me she was going to the County Fair.   You know, the one right down the road here in Pomona?   Anyway, I told her to make sure to catch a few horse races at their cute little bullring track.   [...]

    by Brad Eastland, The Sports Philosopher         I’ve been watching football games for a long time.   Longer than many of you LVO-ers have been alive, I reckon.   And I think, therefore, I have paid my dues as a College Football fan and NFL Football fan right up to where some of the opinions and conclusions I [...]

The Sports Philosopher and his faithful dog engage in a lively Q&A over what’s doin’ in Sports….   by Brad Eastland          Good morning, sports fans.   Time for another satisfying edition of “Monday Morning Coffee”.   I don’t know about you, but when it comes to Sports I take my coffee with both powdered *Coffee-Mate and extra half-and-half, and [...]

by Brad Eastland         We middle-agers had a big sports anniversary over the weekend.       But unless you are at least 52 or 53 you don’t remember it.   Many of you weren’t even born yet.   (Which of course makes you lucky in more ways than one.)       But I remember.   Like it was yesterday….       On August 22nd, 1965, [...]

 The Sports Philosopher Takes a Scattershot View of the State of Sport at Summer’s Halfway Point….  by Brad Eastland         I always wanted to be like one of those beloved Sports scribes of my youth, who people got together on a Monday morning to talk about and hash over what he had to say.            You know.   [...]

By Brad Eastland, the Sports Philosopher       Well, I barely made the deadline this week.       Y’see, sports fans, your friendly neighborhood Sports Philosopher has spent the last several days sailing the high seas on a luxury cruise, with body, mind, and rapier-like whatever all languishing in blissful inactivity on the same relaxing boat.   So it’s been [...]