It’s been hot and dry in Columbus recently — but all that is about to change. Tomorrow the Memorial Tournament begins at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, a Columbus suburb. It’s a terrific tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus on a fabulous golf course. As any Columbus resident also knows, however, it also means [...]
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Time For Our Memorial Tournament Rain
Posted in Columbus, sports, Humor, weather, tagged Columbus, sports, Humor, weather, Dublin, Rain, Memorial Tournament, Jack Nicklaus, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Chief Leatherlips, Wyandot on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Enslaved By Fear Of Jinxes — Revisited
Posted in Humor, sports, tagged Cleveland Indians, Humor, Jinxes, Major League Baseball, sports, sports fans on May 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last week, flush with success and heedless of the risk, I wrote an insufficiently veiled post about a certain team’s success and my fear of jinxes. The Fates don’t appreciate such temerity. They become infuriated when puny mortals rise up and stick a thumb in their eye. They know when the time has come for [...]
Enslaved By Fear Of Jinxes
Posted in Humor, sports, tagged Cleveland Indians, Fan Superstitions, Humor, Jinxes, Major League Baseball, sports, sports fans, superstition on May 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Being an absurdly superstitious sports fan is a terrible thing. You’d love to talk about your team and how well they are playing. You’d relish chatting about their residence atop their division, about how they crushed their divisional rivals, and about their ability to withstand the pressure and win close games. You’d like to do [...]
Help Us, Trent!
Posted in Humor, sports, tagged Alabama, Cleveland, Cleveland Browns, Humor, LSU, NFL, NFL Draft, sports, Trent Richardson on April 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Tonight is the first round of the NFL draft. The Browns made a bit of a splash by swapping first round picks with the Minnesota Vikings — and giving the Vikings three later round picks, to boot — and then drafting Trent Richardson of Alabama. Every Browns fan knows the team is cursed and can [...]
Sometimes Nice Guys Finish First
Posted in Family, Reflections, sports, tagged ohio state buckeye, sports on April 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Aunt Bebe, as she is known in our family, is my sister-in-law. She has been a devout Ohio State Buckeye fan long before Bob was even a glimmer in his father’s eye. She adores the Buckeyes. I’m not sure why. She didn’t got to school there. When Jim Tressel became the coach at OSU, Bebe [...]
Deshaun’s Decision
Posted in sports, tagged Aaron Craft, Amir Williams, Big Ten, Big Ten basketball, Buckeye Basketball, Deshaun Thomas, Evan Ravenel, LaQuinton Ross, Lenzelle Smith Jr., Ohio State, Shannon Scott, sports, Thad Matta on April 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As expected, Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger has declared for the NBA draft. I’m not surprised by his decision. He took a physical beating in every game this season and probably decided if he was going to take that kind of abuse he may as well get paid for it. I wish him well and thank [...]
Another Masterful Masters
Posted in sports, TV, tagged Augusta National Golf Club, Golf, sports, The Masters, TV on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t watch much golf on TV. I like to play the game — at least, usually I do — but watching it typically doesn’t have much appeal. The Masters is an exception, however. Every spring I tune in to watch CBS report, in whispered, measured tones, on the unfolding drama at Augusta National Golf [...]
A Passing Glance At The Tribe
Posted in sports, tagged 2012 baseball season, Cleveland, Cleveland Indians, Major League Baseball, sports on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is Opening Day for the 2012 Cleveland Indians. I’m not sure anybody knows what to expect from the team this year — tomorrow we’ll start to find out. Last year the Tribe surprised the baseball world with its fine play early in the season. With excellent pitching and timely hitting, the Indians eked out [...]
A Tough Loss, But A Great Season
Posted in sports, tagged Aaron Craft, Amir Williams, Buckeye Basketball, Deshaun Thomas, Jared Sullinger, Lenzelle Smith Jr., NCAA Tournament, Ohio State, Sam Thompson, Shannon Scott, sports, Thad Matta, William Buford on March 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Ohio State-Kansas game lived up to its billing — a tough slugging match between two heavyweights. Unfortunately for Ohio State (and me), Kansas took the Buckeyes’ best shot and came back strong to win. All credit to the Jayhawks for hustling and scrapping and getting the rebounds and loose balls that allowed them to [...]
Coaching, And Kansas
Posted in sports, tagged Aaron Craft, Bill Self, Buckeye Basketball, Deshaun Thomas, Gonzaga, Jared Sullinger, Jeff Withey, Kansas, Kansas Jayhawks, Lenzelle Smith Jr., Ohio State, Roy Williams, sports, Syracuse, Thad Matta, Thomas Robinson, Tyshawn Taylor on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight Ohio State plays Kansas in one of the Final Four national semifinal games. The winner gets to move on to the national championship game; the loser will celebrate a great season but also wonder about what might have been. A lot has been written about the match-ups in the game. How will Jared Sullinger, [...]
Another Disturbing Example Of Why Sports Fans Are Crazy
Posted in America, sports, tagged America, Dallas Cowboys, Executions, sports, sports fans, Texas on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sports fans are weird. “Fan” is short for “fanatic,” after all, and “fanatic” has the connotation of someone on the edge of reason. Perhaps sports fans in Texas are even weirder than your average, run-of-the-mill sports nuts. How else to explain the bizarre story of Jesse Joe Hernandez, who was moments away from being executed [...]
Off To The Big Easy
Posted in sports, tagged Buckeye Basketball, Final Four, Kansas Jayhawks, NCAA Tournament, New Orleans, Ohio State, sports on March 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The basketball Buckeyes left Columbus today for New Orleans and their Final Four matchup on Saturday with the Kansas Jayhawks. Although there wasn’t a formal pep rally, the team buses drove through campus on their way to the airport and got an enthusiastic sendoff from the Buckeye faithful. Go Buckeyes!
Dawn Of The Age Of Urban
Posted in sports, tagged Ohio State, Buckeye football, sports, Big Ten, buckeyes, Big Ten football, urban meyer on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today the Ohio State football team began spring practice. Although Urban Meyer has been the head coach of the Buckeyes for months, and has been responsible for reeling in a fine recruiting class and for setting a very demanding tone in the off-season conditioning area, today marks his first practice as coach. There’s a lot [...]
Is Baseball Doomed?
Posted in America, sports, tagged America, baseball, ESPN, Major League Baseball, National Football League, New Orleans Saints, NFL, Peyton Manning, sports, Tim Tebow on March 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On our drive back to Columbus today, we listened to satellite radio because the Virginia and West Virginia mountains interfere with decent reception on FM and AM channels. We turned to ESPN radio to catch reaction to the Buckeyes’ big win last night and listened to its programming for about three hours straight. As you [...]
The Final Four. Period.
Posted in sports, tagged Aaron Craft, Amir Williams, Buckeye Basketball, Deshaun Thomas, Evan Ravenel, Jared Sullinger, Lenzelle Smith Jr., Ohio State, Sam Thompson, Shannon Scott, sports, Syracuse, Syracuse Orange, William Buford on March 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Buckeyes are going to the Final Four! Even as I type those words, I find them hard to believe — and richly satisfying, all at the same time. What a fine, if foul-plagued, game this was! Ohio State took the game to Syracuse from the first tip. They played a smart game against the [...]
