For more than three decades I’ve greatly preferred creamy peanut butter to crunchy, and in recent years I’ve rarely given the latter any consideration at all. Last night I realized I’ve been giving crunchy peanut butter the short shrift. Having … Continue reading
Two of the better baseball games you’ll ever see were played yesterday in San Francisco and L.A., seven beautiful hours of after work time for those of us on the East coast. Obviously I was disappointed to see my hometown … Continue reading
Like most people in this country my opinions of our presidential candidates have not changed in the past 48-72 hours. I didn’t know that Donald Trump was a boisterous womanizer? This was news? And after watching the moral decay of … Continue reading
An underrated day on the sports calendar is this one: the first day in which all four LDS games are slated to occur and the only day they’re guaranteed to. With live action scheduled to start at 1:08, this is … Continue reading
Last night vice presidential candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence squared off in what will be their only nationally televised debate. They spent most of the evening talking about the tops of their tickets, so I’m still a little confused … Continue reading
If you’d come to me at the beginning of this NFL season and said, “Mike, the Redskins are going to be 2-2 after four games,” I would have called it good enough. If you’d added that the Nationals would be … Continue reading
I have come across several eyebrow-raising headlines this week along the lines of “Muslim woman in hijab featured in Playboy!!!” This statement is technically correct, though about as disclosing as when I say I was in Playboy. (Because I had a letter to … Continue reading
Some day Franklin will ask me about my all-time favorite David Ortiz moment. (I’ve been following Big Papi for two decades; his career ends next month.) My answer? September 27, 2016, in one of his final Yankee Stadium appearances, Ortiz … Continue reading
Tragedy in Miami, jubilation in the Meadowlands, a heavyweight fight on tap at Hofstra tonight… all of it takes a backseat to the passing of one of my heroes. Arnold Palmer, one of golf’s great champions and a beacon of … Continue reading
Rather than jinx my hometown Redskins for the third week in a row (before their Sunday contest with the upstart New York Giants), I thought I’d say a word or two about a couple games from last night. First, there … Continue reading