Why it’s called Champ Week these days and not Championship Week I could not tell you. (Shorter hashtag?) Regardless, the week leading up to the NCAA Tournament remains one of the best weeks of the sports year. Most of all … Continue reading
Dear Monmouth Hawks: I sincerely apologize. That was me jinxing you the other night and I was wrong. Please accept my concession. Dear Syracuse Orange (nee Orangemen, team of my youth): If you do not win this afternoon I think … Continue reading
I’ll admit that after one episode of Season Four of House of Cards I was a bit disappointed. I’d thought the magic was finally gone and I was watching just another show worthy of about a third-rate cable station, one that … Continue reading
One of my two best friends in the world has a birthday tomorrow. He’s the little boy who calls me “Daddy” and tomorrow he’s turning two. He doesn’t know it, but I’m sure he’ll be happy about all the attention. … Continue reading
It’s been a full decade since the worst day of my life: March 2, 2006, the day my best friend was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 23. For reasons I can’t explain or perhaps wish to … Continue reading
Today is Leap Day, an unusual date on our calendar. Here are a few other unusual things that occurred yesterday that made me ponder cosmic alignments this day. Caps lose. Whoa. That doesn’t happen often. Is it the playoffs already? … Continue reading
You’ll remember a few months ago I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon in Frederick, Maryland, seeing some legit minor league baseball with an affable group of baseball devotees (see post of August 3, 2015). I was more or … Continue reading
Last night my local school board—they’re also my employer—voted to cancel school next Tuesday. That’s Presidential Primary Day in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Can’t have the kids in school with all those angry Trump voters roaming the halls! Don’t get … Continue reading
With victories now in consecutive state primaries, it seems Donald Trump should cruise to the Republican nomination for President. (I should probably have picked another word than “cruise.”) Much depends, of course, on next Tuesday’s “SEC” primary, which includes not … Continue reading
Robins, larks, groundhogs, the Easter bunny… nothing says Spring quite like those four arousing words: pitchers and catchers report. It begins. … Continue reading