It’s major league baseball’s opening day, which to me is justification for a national holiday. Technically, the season had already opened last night, when the Yankees steamrolled through the Giants (and my supposed fantasy team ace Logan Webb) 7-0, despite an 0-for-5 performance with FOUR strikeouts from the defending two-time AL MVP Aaron Judge. But … Read more
The NBA season resumes tonight after a six-day sabbatical with a robust slate of ten games, including a highly anticipated litmus test for the league’s surprisingly front-running Detroit Pistons in both the spotlight and crosshairs of Madison Square Garden for a globally streamed showdown with league management and domestic media rights owners’ pre-season favorite for … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. You regular readers (and I’m hoping there may indeed be a few more of you each time I make this passive-aggressive plea for engagement since the … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. Greetings and salutations to all of you 12th Men (and women) who are gloating with justifiable glee this AM in the wake of what went down … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. It’s once again time for an Olympiad, and it’s about as welcomed as any in recent memory. For one, it’s taking place in Italy once again … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. Turns out there is something to the concept that you can get too much of a good thing. Not that I didn’t already realize that … Read more
Just about everything was set up for the homecoming game of all time last time at Hard Rock Stadium in beautiful downtown Miami Gardens. The conquering hero Hurricanes, the #10 and the lowest Power Four seed in the College Football Playoffs, had rolled through a juggernaut of three consecutive high-pressure games in College Station, Texas, … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site The Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. Yes, I’m well aware it’s still very much winter and football season, and if we needed any reinforcement of that three of the last … Read more
NOTE: We interrupt this “Best of ’25” countdown to bring you a dual illumination of what we shared today on our sister site Double Overtime–ya know, the one where we typically urge you to visit regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional reports on business and technology. As you will hopefully discover … Read more
Once again, I must plead relative ignorance and throw myself on the mercy of the court of public opinion that I am simply not enough of a fan of professional wrestling to know the full storyline and career trajectories of its more prominent personalities. But I do know that an awful lot of people do, … Read more