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 […]
The Value of Sports Did I learn anything of value in spending so many hours over so many years practicing, playing, thinking, stressing and dreaming about sports? Yes. First, I learned that the adage about “You can do anything you want, if you want to badly enough” is not true. There is a small fact […]
Go Raptors I just got my new Toronto Raptor shirt – Go Kawhi Leonard #2. I have been supporting so many teams that never win, I figured that I would support Toronto. #2 being from Inland Empire and an Aztec made it easy. But I loved Fred VanVleet’s final games. Wichita State Shocker, listed at […]
On Season The basketball season is over. It finally ended halfway thru June. Good to see the underdog win this year and yea for Canada. Off Season Now the off season begins in earnest. Already the LAKERS have gone big and arranged a trade for Anthony Davis. They did mortgage the future a little. As […]
Winners and Losers Gary Woodland wins the US Open at Pebble Beach. Brooks Koepka does not win his third open in a row and Tiger finishes down the line. I was in Las Vegas the week before the Open and happened to be in a Sports Bar picking up some Clemson earnings from New Years. […]
