The great Calvin Trillin once wrote that anybody who doesn’t think the best hamburger in the world comes from his hometown is a sissy. I live in Charlotte. In related […]
It’s a good week here. Sports on Earth launched on Monday, and I’ll be writing there several times a week for as long as they’ll have me. (My first piece […]
Just wanted to give y’all a couple of updates and a little bit of news: — Today we launched a pop-up blog at Sports on Earth, my new employer. It’ll […]
All of us who had hoped for a college football playoff should stop right now and take a moment to thank Jordan Jefferson. The LSU quarterback was so comically overmatched […]
If you enjoy any of the things in the headline, you should watch this — Bill Murray’s speech on being inducted into the South Atlantic League (known down South as […]
If you enjoy any of the things in the headline, you should watch this — Bill Murray’s speech on being inducted into the South Atlantic League (known down South as […]
The Miami Heat were doing what every basketball coach wants a team to do: get to the basket. It was the second quarter of Sunday night’s Game 3, and there […]
Playoff game, two outs, I’m in left field. The best player in the whole Midget League is at the plate. Runners on second and third. If we get him out, […]
Our church doesn’t do a lot of the hymns I remember from growing up Baptist. But on Sunday, near the end of the service, two of our singers did “Softly […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKu9mcHP3w&feature=related He’s not back. Back means winning a major. Back means contending for more than one week in a row. Back means taking down Mickleson and McIlroy instead of Sabbatini […]
The SEC is having its spring meetings down in Destin, Fla., a lovely slice of white-sand beach down on the Gulf Coast. It’s a fairly casual event, so much so […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGAq20vT0g The fiddler didn’t always show up. This was a problem, back in the time of country swing bands, because the fiddle was supple enough to carry the melody, and […]