DRIBBLE, DRIBBLE
My buddy Paul Lindstrom and I took off yesterday and visited the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield MA. A nicely scaled faxility–I recommend it.
Sports
SEPTEMBER BASEBALL!
Thanks to my pal David Jensen, I got to attend the Yanks-Mets game at Citi Field last Sunday night. What a lot of fun we had! The night was perfect, the seats were great, and the crowd was congenial. What we ended up seeing was in game in two parts: sic innings of a tight …
GO GIANTS!
It’s a lucky guy who has a friend like Paul Lindstrom, who shares his Giants pre-season tickets. Thanks, pal. It was a typically inconsistent pre=season game, but it was great to get out, and to spend time with Paul and his daughter Nadia, and to see the Giants prevail over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Above: Paul …
THE LONGER RIDERS, JULY 18: CHEYENNE
Thursday was devoted to a long, punishing drive across Kansas, where we saw the first of many wind turbines that we would all across the great American prairie, up to Fort Collins, Colorado, where we stayed in a room that had a hit tub and shower right next to the bed. Weird. On Friday, we …
BELTRAN BELTS ONE!
Thanks to the largesse of my daughter Molly, our newest friend Shawn Kelly and I (that’s us below, flanking Mister Balloonhead) got to go to see the Yankees and Orioles on Friday, June 20th. Shawn, who is very knowledgeable about baseball (although this appears to be way down on the list of things he knows …
AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!
Momentarily, anyway, after left-winger Carl Hagelin of the New York Rangers tied the score with a nice goal in the second period of Game 4 of the Rangers’ first round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Thanks to my friend Paul Lindstrom (yes, that’s us, silhouetted against the rink), we got to sit in his company’s …
THE STRANGE UGLY CASE OF DONALD STERLING
Just ten short days ago, lawyer/slumlord/billionaire racist Donald Sterling was heard on a covertly recorded tape saying that he didn’t want his mixed-race girlfriend to bring black athletes to L.A. Clippers basketball games. (Among other things: read the full transcript here.) Since then, volumes of outrage were expressed, much of it by NBA players; and …
SENTIMENTAL FAREWELL
A Yankee season that was by turns surprising, lousy, exciting, and disappointing has a sweet and affectionate close as New York said goodbye to two stalwarts of the team’s most recent golden era. The peerless Mariano Rivera–the Great Rivera, of 19 seasons and 652 regular seasaon saves and 42 postseason saves with an astonishing 1.34 …
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WASHINGTON ARROWS?
Peter King, the most eminent NFL writer in America, has let it be known that he will no longer use the nickname of Washington’s football team in his column. (I swore off some time ago.) He says he has no desire to insult people gratuitously. Team owner Daniel Snyder is adamantly against change. “We’ll never …
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUR 1963 BALTIMORE ORIOLES!
Fifty years ago, on September 8, 1963, the Baltimore Orioles held a Fan Camera Day promotion. Prior to the game, fans were allowed to come down to the infield railing. Players would come out, like horses passing in a paddock, and fans would be allowed to take photos. My Dad, not really a camera buff, …
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