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
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 coverage of business and technology. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, especially those of you who indeed have a yours to be with. Here in this alternative universe, our … Read more
NOTE: This musing also appears as a portion of today’s SUNDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK recap on our sister site, Double Overtime. Please visit it regularly for coeverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology. On a college football Saturday that could best be described as the calm before the storm scheduling-wise … 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 technology. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the New York Yankees. My heart–at least the ventricle holding my baseball fandom– will always and often inexplicably belong … Read more
For all the hype and hyperbole that surrounded last night’s Monday Night Football showdown between the Green Bay Packers and the green-clad World Champion Philadelphia Iggles, the game was sadly a stinker. No frozen tundra. Scoreless at the half, only a modest Jake Elliott field goal giving Philly a precarious 3-0 lead going into the … Read more
It’s been a busy week for us and our Venn diagram of interests, which often separates sports into a separate bucket. More often than not, that often provides us a welcome distraction from more troubling issues or a celebration of how much sports matters to media these days. Yesterday, neither was the case by a … Read more