Category Archives: Sports
Baseball Is…
My five-month-old son was strapped into his car seat on a sweltering August afternoon as our car radio announced that baseball was over for the rest of the 1994 season. The MLB Players Union had made good on their threat to strike. I began to wonder what it would be like if the players never returned and the game I and my nine brothers had grown up with died. What would I tell my son ten years hence if he came to me and asked, Continue reading
OTC: College Hoops Talk Still Hot in KC
“I can’t work at Memphis. I don’t want to work at Memphis. If I took that job I couldn’t do what I do – work with kids. I am not going to coach my kids (in college). I Continue reading
OTC: Xavier Henry Closes In On KU
College basketball recruiting is in a Continue reading
Take 5: New Food At The New K
Royals fans are hoping this is the year the team is more palatable Continue reading
OTC: Broncos Trade Cutler And Chiefs Fans Cheer
Denver loses their quarterback and the Chiefs gain Continue reading
OTC: Mike Anderson Choose MU
Does it strike anyone else as apocalyptic that Kentucky has chosen to pay a mercenary like John Calipari almost $32 million over the next eight years while Courtney Paris, a college senior at Oklahoma, is so school-oriented that she is willing to give back her scholarship money if OU doesn Continue reading
Take 5: NCAA TV Commercials Part I
The NCAA has lengthened timeouts and TV commercial breaks during the NCAA tourney to allow us extended sit-down bathroom breaks. But the TV commercials invading our home domes the past few weeks have been impossible to avoid. Here is a list of some of my favorites and those I Continue reading
