THE SPORTS LISPERER The day would bring darkness, how could it not? Confusion and gloom would carry the moment, how could anything otherwise occur? Day would become night and black would be white and all that is good and pure in this world would devolve into the endless morass of nothingness. A weekend without football?!? […]
THE SPORTS LISPERER As a child, baseball meant more to me than just about anything. Earliest pictures of me are wearing baseball caps (probably led to my premature balding). I had a brief dalliance, I was very young, with the Yankees. We had a neighbor who was a Yankee fan and apparently, I was easily […]
The art of smack-talking, sh#t-talking is a real thing in sports. From the playgrounds of Ohio to the mean streets of the Bronx, talking trash covers every sport, every gender, every socio-economic boundary and has done so since the dawn of time. However, when trash talking comes from the stands and the crowd, it’s heckling. […]
THE SPORTS LISPERER #6 It can’t be easy being the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, it can be the greatest thing in the world. Middle School’s in Texas are named after you, you always have the option of running for Mayor, Congress or Governor, women swoon and men want to be you. Unless […]
THE SPORTS LISPERER #4 Not to give my age up too readily, I remember the retirements of Roger Staubach and Terry Bradshaw. Now I have very little memory of Roger playing but one of my first memories of the Super Bowl is Terry Bradshaw’s long TD strike to John Stallworth for the touchdown that broke […]
THE SPORTS LISPERER #3 After what we all witnessed this past Monday, it’s magnificent to see that Damar Hamlin is speaking and is improving. While he has a long way to go, the breathing tube has been removed and he is speaking with family and friends. In a sport as violent as football, this event […]
THE SPORTS LISPERER #2 And what a January 3rd it should be. The dawning of a New Year as we celebrate the end of 2022 with a fun three-day weekend to lead into 2023. From a sportsman point of view, it was an orgy of college bowl games and pro football nail biters. The ecstasy […]
The Sports Lisperer #Episode 1 Today my plan was to intimate the first article of my blog, soon to be podcast, The Sports Lisperer. I worked hours, if not minutes, constructing a work on the minutiae of a certain aspect of a certain sport and then yesterday, the World Cup Final happened. How can one […]
Many of you who read my words are too young to remember the Iran Hostage situation. It’s one of my earliest memories and one of my scariest. The U.S. backed government (dictatorship) in Iran was led by the Shah of Iran. Islamic fundamentalists overtook his regime, when he went into exile, in 1979 and held […]
It’s a spectacle that comes every four years, and in this country, though the sport remains on the fringes of an enthusiastic American following, it still is a big event and big-time money for bars and restaurants who swerve into the World Cup fervor. As a kid, I spent many summers in Mexico and my […]
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