All Time Great Bobby Bowden is considered one of the all-time best college football coaches. I do not know if that is true or not, but I can tell you that he was one of the greatest football coach speakers who ever lived. Went to a couple of his clinics years ago and he was […]
Olympic Meals The reporters and athletes and all others were severely limited on where they could go during the duration of the Olympics. Several correspondents and athletes have waxed eloquently about the food at the many 7-ELEVENS in Tokyo as there are 20,000 in Japan so they were easy to find. You can get full […]
World Records Having the contests in Japan sure messes up any viewing schedule. So, since I dislike commercials (ok, maybe not Geico) we recorded the NBC prime version and watched after dinner. This meant that I could not listen to most radio or TV stations during the day. The Women’s Gymnastics has been hashed over […]
Elite Eight Our local conference had four teams in the ELITE EIGHT. Unbelievable. And UCLA is still playing as I write this. Also, in the ELITE EIGHT there was only one school located east of the Mississippi. In the last NCAA Tourney the Pac 12 had one team in the Sweet Sixteen and none in […]
Rules are Rules Ted Lyons, Chicago White Sox, pitched a 6-0 no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox. In 1 hour and 7 minutes. Today it would take 1 hour and 7 minutes for the ninth innings as networks and MLB want to advertise more. Some managers would take him out in the 7th or 8th […]
Intercollegiate Tennis Some boomers may understand this post. On August 19th, 2020, Renee Richards became 86 years of age. When I met her, she was named Richard Raskin. I met her at West Point in the Eastern intercollegiate Tennis Tournament. In the round of sixteen Richard beat me. The next day in the New York […]
Favorites One I really like was by Bum Phillips, one of my favorite NFL coaches. He said about Don Shula, “He can take his’n and beat your’n, and then your’n and beat his’n”. Shula said that it was one of the best compliments he ever received. One coach who said about an outstanding college prospect […]
Washington Nationals I admit that I was hoping that the Nationals would win for the first time in history. And they did with road teams winning all seven games, now that is amazing. The Cubs finally won a few years ago, so now we can start rooting for the team that has not won since […]
I Meet the Nicest People A name from my past. My final year at IU, I played in the Eastern Intercollegiates at West Point. This tourney is for all schools east of the Mississippi. I was seeded very generously at #3. In the round of 16 I was upset by Richard Raskin of Yale. Since […]
