I hate exercise for its own sake. I just hate it. In younger days, when I could be in the…
The old guy started his second service game with a double, then the kid set him up to put a…
Of young American tennis players, it can be said the most aesthetically pleasing game belongs to Jared Donaldson, who advanced…
Most Americans don’t spend much time thinking about the wars we’re in. The 43,000 of us lucky enough to be…
The Mooch is gone and not a moment too soon. Normally I write about when politics and sports intersect, and…
The kids who benefit from the Washington Open Tennis Tournament, called (money talks) the Citi Open, after many years as…
The juice is loose, as was popular to say in the 1970s when O.J. Simpson ran through NFL backfields with…
Remember when all your local sports team had to worry about was winning games and selling tickets? Now they are…
In Monday’s NYT there is yet another article about the supposedly new discovery, complete with new, abstract, and techie-sounding words, of…
MLB Network’s Prime 9, the baseball network’s program that rates the best of baseball in just about every conceivable category, chose Casey Stengel as “baseball’s greatest character” in 2009. It was a good choice, though there was tough competition for the honor, and one of the beauties of baseball is it can produce endless talk (I hesitate to say arguments) about who the greatest (or worst) this or that is or was. In this case, what about Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, Jimmy Piersall, Bob Uecker, Rocky Bridges?
