The Sports Philosopher's former abode
In sports, as in life, everything seems to even out in the end.
(It doesn’t, of course. Just seems to.)
Take baseball. There are bad calls by umpires in baseball all the time. Stands to reason that the good and the bad should even out. Although Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga probably doesn’t think [...]
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Whether you believe God or the devil is in the details, you’re going to have to sweat the small stuff to be a winner in this world.
Swimmer Michael Phelps knows that mere “trifles” made him perfect at the Beijing Olympics. In his miraculous hundredth-of-a-second victory in the 100-meter butterfly, the seventh of his eight gold-winning [...]
Just over a century ago, the Piney Woods Country School was founded in a desperately poor section of Mississippi in Rankin County. Today, it is the flagship of the four remaining historically African-American boarding schools in the United States. Its alums have attended Princeton, Smith, Harvard and many other schools. What’s amazing is that no [...]
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I spent two hours moving boxes out of the attic the other day.
Painful.
And I mean painful in every application of the word. Painful physically, for no 54-year-old man with a bad back and balky knees should spend two hours in a 115-degree attic crawling around lifting and lowering down heavy boxes, and [...]
They played a little game of tennis out on Court Eighteen at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
And Wednesday.
And Thursday.
They played into darkness twice and left the court to frenzied (albeit disappointed) crowds twice, because after two days there was still no winner to worship. This was only a 1st-round match. Only an insignificant [...]
Dear Diary,
I hardly know where to start.
So the Lakers finally beat the Celtics, huh? Big deal. They’d beaten them in the finals before. Twice. Okay okay, so twice out of eleven isn’t so hot, I know, I get it. And they’d never beaten them in a game seven, where it was all [...]
Sports usually disappoints.
I mean it. The end result of most landmark sporting events is that the anticipation far exceeds the actual outcome of the event itself. This might strike you as a surprising comment from a man who loves sports, writes about sports, and knows more about most sports than most of you [...]
Folks, there’s more to this Galarragagate thing than meets an umpire’s eye….hey, am I the first one to call it that?
And what exactly is Galarragagate, you ask? Well, if you don’t know, you’re not really paying much attention. This has gone way beyond being just a sports story. It has been all over [...]
I can’t believe I have to go through this again.
The Lakers versus the Celtics. They go together like no other two teams in sports. They’re like ham and eggs, like Lucy and Ricky, like Tiger and pudgy twenty-something blondes. Together they have won 32 of the 63 previous NBA championships. That’s more than [...]
