The City That Never Sleeps
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Issues
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Look. Listen. Decide. On the debate to let my son play football.
My granddaddy often said to me, “Look. Listen. Decide.” He had this efficiency with dialog that could sum up just about anything. His words have stayed with me since I was 10 years old. As much as possible I apply them to everything including career, family, and my love of sports. I grew up watching and listening…
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My First Baby: How understanding fastballs prepared me for an RBI in life
If you spend more than five minutes with me inevitably my affection for the New York Yankees will make its way into the conversation. As detailed in a previous post, the Yankees are the source of One Of The Greatest Loves Of My Life. My Granddaddy indoctrinated me to listening to baseball games on the radio…
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HOW WE SOURCE OUR LIVES FROM SPORTS: CLICHÉS
If you watch enough sports you’ll hear plenty of clichés throughout the course of a game. They’re not all throw away sayings though. Some clichés are true. And after this weekend’s host of colossal NCAA tournament upsets, one in particular comes to mind, “There are no moral victories in sports.” The athletes involved really want to win. None…
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND HIS IMPACT ON SPORTS
Martin Luther King Jr. understood sports to be an important bridge to change. His public friendship with Jackie Robinson, more private relationship with Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay at the time) and support of the Olympic Project For Human Rights in 1967 tied King to three critical voices in sports history. The man never needed to…
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