I spent a lot of time playing youth sports as a kid. For baseball alone ( Read more... )

Since my parents retired to Pennsylvania, my father has taken up pickleball. Despite having had almost no prior racket sports experience outside of an occasional game of tennis before I was born, he has taken to it with enthusiasm. My mother reports that if he says he'll be playing pickleball for two hours he usually means three hours, and that he ( Read more... )

I already cited my top 10 "I was there" moments for baseball. I'm going to touch briefly on five more sports moments that I was present for. These are also in no particular order.

1. I have only been to one NFL game in my life. That game happened to be the first Monday Night Football in the history of the "new" expansion Browns on Monday, December ( Read more... )

Otherwise known as things I forgot in my original post- When I walked Tulip in the morning before catching the bus, I passed many businesses with "closed today, at parade" signs on the door, including every single business in one of the larger buildings in Lakewood. I'm not sure anyone went to work on Wednesday ( Read more... )

Earlier this year, I saw the Believeland premiere. The documentary covered the failure of Cleveland's sports teams to win a championship for 52 years, and ended on the hopeful note that LeBron James was back in Cleveland for the Cavaliers. That movie got the ball rolling. Only three hours after Believeland debuted on TV, Clevelander Stipe Miocic ( Read more... )

It's Groundhog Day, and like deja vu I once again find myself at my friend Joe's house for the Super Bowl. Assuming that nothing horrible has happened since I wrote this up, this is the third year in a row that I've attended his Super Bowl festivities in the Philadelphia suburbs ( Read more... )

So I have to admit that when JAD and I got our tickets to the Frozen Diamond Faceoff, I fully expected that it would be the coldest event I had ever been to at Progressive Field, and possibly the coldest outdoor sports event I had ever been to at all. After all, it was an outdoor hockey game in Cleveland in January; of course it was going to be ( Read more... )

Many of my friends don't follow sports, and normally I don't care. However, I think that those people in Cleveland who don't normally follow the Cavaliers might want to read this article, unless of course they don't like almost free pizza.
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The Cooler is playing at Cedar Lee. You *need* to go see this movie. It's absolutely phenomenal. William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin & Maria Bello each turn in a career-best performance, with strong supporting performances from every single other person in the movie. Seriously, there's not a weak link in the cast ( Read more... )

This weekend I had one of the best Saturdays I've had in a very long while.

( Act I: Hockey )