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 […]
Where the 91 Ends 