Hart Surgery: Insomnia

My roommate Will and I are competitive in everything we do. From golf to scrabble, from bowling to poker, you name it we are out to take each other down. I mention this because recently we have been trying to one-up one another in Text Twist, a game easily found on the internet that requires you to scramble six letters [read more...]

Winter Olympics Fever? Not Exactly

It's been a full two weeks since the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Torino, with this Sunday serving as the last day of actual competition. NBCOlympics.com lists 15 different event categories on its homepage, and despite the fact that I get paid to follow the world of sports for a living, admittedly, I know very little as to [read more...]

Human Element in Athletes Hard to Ignore

If regular access to professional athletes is one of the supposed "thrilling" aspects of being paid to write about sports, perhaps the most certain thing a scribe could relay to any fan when the barstool conversations take place is this: They are a lot like you and me. Bode Miller drinks beer. Ozzie Guillen makes statements he immediately regrets,and my tape [read more...]