Unlike 24 million other Americans, I did not watch the Republican primary debate last Thursday night on Fox News. I was enjoying a fun cocktail party at the Santa Barbara Zoo as the fireworks went off on the debate stage in Cleveland. But it will not surprise anybody who knows me that I recorded the […]
(please enjoy a late-added note at the end of this blog about how Carly Fiorina dominated the early debate, now onto our regularly scheduled programming) It’s only a few hours until the unofficial kickoff of the Presidential derby, the Fox News debate for the Republican candidates at 9:00p ET/6:00p PT. The top 10 candidates in […]
It won’t be long now until the first debate of the Presidential primary season with Fox News hosting the Republicans on Thursday, 8/6 in Cleveland. For political junkies, this is the beginning of an extended preseason before the voting begins in early 2016. For those of you who know me, I am a numbers guy. […]
Every year, in a small upstate New York town named Cooperstown, there is a magical day, usually in the glowing sunshine, in which legends of the sport of baseball are bestowed with the game’s greatest honor, induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Well, not every year. Two years ago, despite the […]
Donald Trump is running to be the President of the United States. This is reality TV at is best, or maybe at its worst. The real estate billionaire and host of “The Celebrity Apprentice” is not just running for president, he is currently the front-runner by a significant margin, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC […]
Today, the most crowded presidential field anybody can ever remember grew to sixteen today when Ohio Governor John Kasich announced that he was running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Kasich joins a field that includes eight current or former governors, five current or former U.S. Senators, 2 business people and […]
This weekend, within a span of about 17 hours, Major League Baseball’s 400 home run club welcomed two new members. On Friday night, Texas Rangers 3rd baseman Adrian Beltre belted his 400th career long ball. Then on Saturday afternoon, in a fairly hefty drizzling rain, Detroit Tigers 1st baseman Miguel Cabrera slugged #400 of his brilliant career. Both blasts […]
What has happened to all of the great African-American players in Major League Baseball? A few weeks ago, on April 15th, as they do every year, all 30 major league teams celebrated the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in 1947. Every player on every team wore Robinson’s #42 to honor this civil […]
It’s always one of my very favorite days of the year: Opening Day for Major League Baseball. For many in the colder parts of the USA, it’s a line of demarcation between winter and spring. For fans of the grand old game, the anticipation towards Opening Day is not unlike a young child waking up […]
I started watching the Masters at the age of 13, having taken up the game of golf a few years earlier. My first Masters was the 1979 classic in which Fuzzy Zoeller defeated Tom Watson and Ed Sneed in a playoff. Since that spring morning, I’ve watched the tournament every single year. For the last […]