GOAL OF THE YEAR
Liverpool’s famous racist Luis Suarez launches a nearly fifty foot chip shot and scores against Norwich on Saturday’s English Premier League action.
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THE RIFLE
I doubt that anyone but me cares, but 35 years ago tonight, I saw the most exciting hockey game of my life. MY beloved Philadelphia Flyers were facing the estimable Toronto Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup quarterfinals. This was one of the terrific but star-crossed Leaf teams featuring Daryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Borje Salming, …
WILDCATS!
My poor girl Cara had to work during the NCAA Finals last night, but as she says, thank God for streaming. And thank God, also, that the post-victory party was still going on after she got off work. Here she is, left, with her roommate Nicole, celebrating in Lexington. As she put it on Facebook, …
PAYDIRT!
Ahmad Bradshaw hatches the winning touchdown in the Giants 21-17 victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI. The Patriots had decided to allow him to score in order to conserve time for the offense to mount a comeback. As Bradshaw was running in, Eli Manning was yelling “Don’t score! Don’t score!”, hoping to run …
AND HERE IS THE REASON WHY!
This is the undefeated cap which my daughter Cara gave me for Christmas. With the magic conjured by the combination of this cap and my head, the Giants beat the Jets and the Cowboys to close out the regular season, and then beat the Falcons, Packers, 49ers and the Patriots to win Super Bowl XLVI. …
THE GIANTS WIN!
I must say, I still can’t quite believe that the New York Giants won the Super Bowl yesterday. All season long, they looked like a good team that could go toe-to-toe with anybody. During the regular season, they beat such other good teams as the Eagles, Cowboys and Patriots, and narrowly lost to other good …
JUST SAY NO THANKS!
Isn’t it kind of divine that in the same week that Tim Thomas, the goalie of the Boston Bruins, refused to attend a White House reception in honor of the team’s championship last spring, Buckingham Palace released the names of 277 people who between the years 1951 and 1999 declined to accept one of the …
GIANTS 20, 49ers 17 (OT)
In an old-fashioned defensive slugfest Sunday, the Giants prevailed over the 49ers, and now face the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Above, Lawrence Tynes boots the game-winning field goal.
TEBOWMANIA!
After entirely too much deliberation, I’m giving Tebowmania another week. It says here that the young miracle-worker will beat the Patriots today. I know, I know: so much of Tebow’s success has been the result of gifts lavished upon by suddenly pregnable defenses. Why did the Jets come with an all-out blitz, knowing that Tebow …
AL DAVIS: OWNER, MAVERICK, MILITARY GENIUS
Al Davis, the legendary owner of the Oakland Raiders who died today at 82, was famous for saying something that ought to chiseled onto every lintel in the Pentagon, needle-pointed into a Whitman sampler and hung in a frame on the wall of every member of Congress, and tattooed onto the knuckles of every general …