It’s super late and I’m super tired, so despite having a LOT to write about, I have to make this just a fast check-in. Today was the first day of the NFL draft, and I took a moment to compile this. Of thirty-two first-round draftees this year, eight were from the Big 12, seven from [...]
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They were talking about the Outdoor Classic (or whatever it’s called) on the Tony Kornheiser Show Monday morning. The Penguins will play the Capitals on Heinz Field. Non-sports fans might not know that one game a year in the National Hockey League (on New Year’s Day, I think) is played outdoors, the way most hockey [...]
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I was planning to check out the UH-Manoa season opener at Rainbow Stadium against Oregon State last night, but I was listening to the Sea Warrior Report on ESPN 1420 and it occurred to me that the HPU game would be free, so I opted for Hans L’Orange Field. It was close for two thirds [...]
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Well I guess I couldn’t have been more wrong about the Super Bowl. I’m disappointed, but at least it was a good game. Props to the Saints who played well, and props also to Peyton Manning who was total class in defeat. Yeah, you know that’s Archie’s boy. I made myself finish the other book [...]
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It’s true. I have a mancrush on Peyton Manning. Women sometimes ask what the deal is with guys and spectator sports. They say they get the whole participatory sports thing, but what’s so great about watching sports on television? And why is there such fanaticism tied to certain teams? It’s not an easy question to [...]
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I said Colts 27, Jets 16. Final score: Colts 30, Jets 17. I said Saints 35, Vikings 31. Final score: Saints 31, Vikings 28. As you can see, I wasn’t dead-on, but you have to agree I had the right idea in both cases. After the Colts game was over, I said, “The worst thing [...]
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Oh, and before I forget: New Orleans 35 (with one defensive TD) Minnesota 31 Indianapolis 27 New York 16 Looks to me like it will be Peyton Manning in his second Super Bowl against his Hall-of-Fame dad’s former team. Not the Manning vs. Manning matchup I hoped for in the season’s early weeks, but I [...]
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I signed up on Formspring.me when I saw a few friends doing it. It’s kind of a fun idea. You ask people questions and they answer them. My profile is here. Leave me some questions, either anonymously or onymously. Yesterday, I discovered Between the Buried and Me, a band whose website I shan’t link to [...]
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For one long, terrific year, I was a page editor at the UH-Hilo newspaper, something I bring up in conversation a lot more than one might expect for having served only a year. My editor-in-chief was Ryan, who remains a great friend, and our business manager was Jen, and there was a crazy mixture of [...]
I’m not going to get into my detailed argument here, because I’m still formulating it. However, I do want to say that while I haven’t totally made up my mind, I’m leaning toward forgiving Mark McGwire’s transgressions and flinging the doors of Cooperstown wide open. Well, not wide open, but open enough to let him [...]
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