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Schadenfreude!
The Betting Counter- First thing first. Last week I hipped all of you to I’ll Have Another, courtesy of my main source on the ponies, none other than The Knish. All a y’all mofos owe me big time. Horse paid off over 30 bucks on a $2 bet, becoming the first ever to grab the [...]
Big Day
The Public Professor is actually a real, live professor. But because he doesn’t have a cell phone or cable, he’s whacky enough to contribute here… and we’re grateful. Click This to see some of his stuff outside of sports. Sittin’ Back in My Rose Pink Cadillac- Today’s gonna be a big sports day from start to [...]
Draft Dodger
The Felt Forum, Or Whatever They’re Calling It These Days- I became an NFL draft junkie back in the late 1980s when I was living in Michigan and got cable for the first time in my life. It was a revelation. As a young man who not only cared way too much about football (the [...]
Tourney Time: High Stakes Poker With Low Income Guys
DELAWARE – It was time to claim the prize. I’m in a weekly poker game here in Baltimore, and each week the members of the core group all toss a dollar in the pot. It’s a running bounty for the highest hand of the year. And the winner uses it to enter a poker tournament [...]
Smoking A Cuban: Selig, Santorum & Ozzie
Big Trouble in Little Havana- You got the Twitter, the Facebook, the people with the phones in your face recording your every move, the 24 hour news cycle, and all the rest of it. If you’re even kinda famous, every little slip up counts these days. Take for example Foster Friess. Who’s Foster Friess, you ask? Just [...]
Plug It
The Green Room- The plug is a ubiquitous part of our culture. Nary a form of media is immune to it. Whether it’s an actor appearing on a late night talk show to plug a new movie, a musician plugging a new album in a magazine interview, or any of the other countless ways in which people [...]
Last Day Of March Sports Ramblings From Our Sports Professor
END OF THE ROPE, USA – Linsanity has died down. A stubborn losing streak and horrific assist-to-turnover ratio will do that. The Rangers are still being ignored. When you play over 80 regular season games and then let sixteen teams into the playoffs, not too many people care until after the first round of the playoffs. [...]
Dropping The Gloves
The Penalty Box- It began with the New Jersey Devils submitting a dubious starting lineup at the Garden last Monday. When the New York Rangers countered by assigning Stu Bickel to take the opening face off, it was on. Stu Bickel never takes the opening faceoff. Everyone knew what was coming before it happened. The [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day: I’m In One Piece
THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN – The groom’s brother was a wreck. He could barely move. All of thirty years-old, he stiffly hobbled about the 1990s condo that passed for a ski chalet like a man twice his age trying to recover from back surgery. I took it as an omen. In the last post [...]
Break a Leg: To Ski Or Not To Ski
ATOP A MOUNTAIN – It all began when I agreed to perform a wedding. As in, I’ll be the guy instructing the happy couple to say, “I do.” Granted, I won’t hold a candle to the guy who did Angry Ward’s wedding a few years back; dude was an actual monk, as in he was [...]
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