Baseball’s hot stove begins to heat up

Alex Rodriguez was a big free agent signing with Texas at the 2000 baseball winter meetings   For baseball fans, the winter can be particularly cold, dark, and long. From the end of the final game of the World Series in late October until Spring Training gets going in February, there are four months without … Continue reading Baseball’s hot stove begins to heat up

Who is this Marshawn Lynch fella anyway?

Marshawn Lynch of the Buffalo Bills in a December 2007 game vs the Philadelphia Eagles I used to play Fantasy Football regularly, and was usually pretty good at it too. With a bunch of guys that I knew from my former profession in banking, I kept playing into my early years with the police department. … Continue reading Who is this Marshawn Lynch fella anyway?

Chestnut and Kobayashi are real hotdogs

Kobayashi and Chestnut did not disappointment   It was everything that was good, and everything awful, about America. It was the 2008 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, the gluttonous showcase of over-consumption held each July 4th since 1916 at the original Nathan's outlet on Coney Island in New York City. The goal: eat as many … Continue reading Chestnut and Kobayashi are real hotdogs