I was recently interviewed by noted travel writer, Rolf Potts, who was writing an article about Charles Veley, the man who’s record I am attempting to break. The article was posted on the New York Times website this morning, click here. My quotes are on page 6 of the story. Additionally, the actual hard copy […]
European Soccer Roundup
November 7, 2008 by 3 Comments
Sorry I haven’t been writing much lately but I have been sidelined with bronchitis which is probably the worst thing to be sick with. However, I realized I haven’t said anything about soccer/football since the new season has started and just wanted to catch up a little bit around Europe. As the EPL heads into […]
Farewell Old Friend
September 21, 2008 by 4 Comments
As I am sitting here in Arizona watching the final game at Yankee Stadium (depressed that I am not there), I feel compelled to write about some of my memories of the cathedral of baseball. As a lifelong Yankee fan, I have probably been to over 500 games at Yankee Stadium since my father took […]
Seven Years Later
September 11, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Seven years ago today was one of the worst days of my life and the worst day in the history of America. For everyone, but especially for those of us who worked in the World Trade Center or knew anyone who passed away on September 11, 2001; today is always a difficult day to get […]
He’s Back!
September 9, 2008 by 3 Comments
It has been a tumultuous year for the best tennis player of all time but Monday, Roger Federer was able to wrap up his fifth consecutive US Open championship and 13th overall major title. He thoroughly manhandled Brit Andy Murray who was making his grand slam final debut after his convincing win over top ranked […]
Random Sports Rants
August 7, 2008 by 7 Comments
I haven’t written much about sports lately, except for the pointless Olympics that start tomorrow, because I’ve been away and really busy lately but I have some things that are driving me nuts in the world of sports and they need to be said. I almost hate to give it more coverage than it already […]
Who Cares About the Beijing Olympics?
August 6, 2008 by 11 Comments
I am a sports fanatic and I love the Olympics. I have been to every Summer Olympic city and most of the Winter Olympic cities. I could tell you the host cities for every single Summer and Winter games. I could list you most of the gold medalists for the major events since the modern […]
I Don’t Speak Starbucksese
August 5, 2008 by 15 Comments
I am not a coffee drinker and never have been. However, I did discover a drink recently at Starbucks that I kind of like and if I have an early meeting or something I will stop and grab a $4.82 “Venti Skim Iced Caramel Macchiato”. Now that’s quite a mouthful. I feel like a complete […]
Olympic Gender Testing
July 30, 2008 by 4 Comments
This is absolutely brilliant. Apparently, in an effort to prevent cheating and doping, they are now testing not only for steroids and performance enhancing drugs at the Beijing Olympics but they have an entire lab devoted to testing if supposed female athletes that physically look like men are actually males. As a matter of fact, […]
Viva Espana
June 29, 2008 by 3 Comments
Spain stared their demons in the eye and conquered their competition today as they dominated play against Germany in their convincing 1-0 win in the final of Euro 2008. There was no doubt who was the best team, today, and the whole tournament. Spain shed their 44 year label of being chokers on the worlds […]
