Headlines for July, 2006

Nice Guys Finish First

The "Gateway trip" started out so well.We (Myself, Becky and Susan) were excited, and well down the road by 8:30 am--off to Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Ill., in search of Women in NASCAR. By 11:00 we had reached the Comfort Inn. By 11:05, we realized our reservations were gone. The Inn claimed the reservation was made for July 26 [read more...]

All Hail the J-Mac Daddy

Some stories seem to never die. But some you hope will live on and on and on. You know they are not too good to be true because they happened. You know they happened because you watched. You felt it. J-Mac lives. It's been months since The Game and weeks since the ESPYs, but who among us doesn't smile at the [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Last Tiger Column You’ll Ever Need

Tiger Woods won the British Open on Sunday, the third time he has done so and his 11th professional major overall. In other news, the sky is blue, water is wet, and there is instability in the Middle East.Don't get me wrong, I love Tiger. He excels at golf in a way few people have ever excelled at anything. His [read more...]

Can There Be Too Much?

Man has been in pursuit of the answer to the question for a long time. And it's a noble one to ask: can there be an overload of sports? God bless them, ESPN seems hell-bent on finding out. Yet, perhaps they've reached that point where the consumer finally has had enough, or at least recognized a true barrier. They've begun to [read more...]

Midseason Awards

With the All-Star Game now in our rearview mirror, we can start to look ahead at what should be a fabulous stretch drive to the 2006 Major League Baseball campaign.It appears as if either the Red Sox or Yankees will finally be watching the playoffs from home, the Tigers are here to stay in Motown, and with their rotation all [read more...]

War Stories: In the Weight Room

"Specialist K. and the Country Convoy" was outlawed from the weight room stereo following a general uprising of the Marines.Her afternoon broadcasts on Armed Forces Radio originated in the "International Zone" of Baghdad, and played in the gym during prime workout hours. It wasn't so much her selection of modern country music, although that was certainly grating to the nerves. What [read more...]

Blips, Blurbs & Blasts

Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's …… In honor of "Superman Returns," it's another edition of Blips, Blurbs & Blasts: After his riches-to-rags fallout in Boston and subsequent "he'll never be the player he used to [read more...]

Hawkneyed Solution

So it's the Fourth of July (or at least the week thereof), and here's a question for you to kick around while you're blasting off firework remnants.When is it time to, shall we say, declare independence from your team? When is enough enough? At what point do you get fed up with the losing records, the managerial incompetence, the front-office short-sightedness? I [read more...]

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