So I’m sittin’ in my easy chair the other night watching the Mavs and Warriors go at it … and then it hits me. The whole game I’m watching Baron Davis and thinking “I’ve seen this guy before … but where?” It’s like I’ve seen him in another life, or more specifically, [...]
The Oakland Raiders with the first pick take …… Bobby Boucher.
Roger Goodell : “ Ahhhh Al, this is a fictional character from the Waterboy…”
Al Davis: “Ahhh, now that is some quality H2O… What? Fictional? I was just watching that game tape the other day? This guy is a stud.”
Bobby Boucher suddenly walking to the stage: [...]
Maybe, just maybe we can bid a less-than-fond adieu to old man winter. Now that last week’s Nor-Easter drifted off to the ocean, I switched the snow blower with the lawn tractor in the garage, replaced the spark plug, and changed the oil. Yeah, I know I should have done it in the [...]
Can’t take credit for this one – I got the idea from another blogger on Sporting News.
Game Rules are easy – use the first letter from the previous last name and list the name of a sports’ personality.
FOR EXAMPLE: I will start with Bobby Orr.
Using the O from his last name I give another [...]
When did your love affair with sports begin? What was the moment you started to pay attention? When you began to alter your daily schedule according to the television schedule? When the sports section of the newspaper took on a dog-eared appearance every day? Did you experience a courtship? Or [...]
1993. Let me think. Gas was probably a buck and a quarter. Monthly cable charges amounted to…ummm $20. The Canadiens played in the Forum. The Leafs and Bruins in their respective Gardens. We referred to the divisions as Patrick, Adams, Norris and Smythe. Minnesota had a team called the North Stars. Quebec still honored us [...]
This past week the family travelled east to the fine city of Boston. The eldest daughter started her tour of college visits. I am praying that she lands in bean town. How sweet it would be!!
While there the better half and I ventured with the nephew to Canal St. to take in some good eats, [...]
We remember #42 again and again and again and …
Okay … okay … I GET IT ALREADY!!! Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier and was a damned good ballplayer. So was Larry Doby. And what about the other great black players who came before Jackie? I don’t know about [...]
The Isles are in the playoffs? Holy Pat Flatley is it true?
10. Bossy scores 69 goals in a season. At the time second most in league history.
9. LaFontaine scores in quadruple overtime to beat the Capitals.
8. J.P. Parise scores in overtime to beat the Rangers. Islanders win their first playoff series.
7. Bossy becomes the [...]
The passing of legendary Grambling State coach, Eddie Robinson, causes a little embarrassment for this writer. For years the name Eddie Robinson only entered my consciousness with the televising of the ‘Bayou Classic’. I remember diminishing his overall record by thinking; who does Grambling play? Little did I understand his true impact [...]