So. World Series 2012. Detroit Tigers (American League) vs. San Francisco Giants (National League ( Read more... )

I've been a sports widower during the Stanley Cup playoffs in the NHL, so I'm pleased that the bloody thing has ended, one way or another ( Read more... )

...I just love being a football widower.

Dunno what it is, but the older she gets, the more my wife likes to trot out her inner jockette. I keep telling her she oughtta watch a game with my old man; they could have a creative cussin' contest, as well as see who can punch the biggest hole into a section of drywall with their fist.

If you must ( Read more... )

I take a back seat to no one in my love of Bruce Springsteen's music; and if I'd ever been lucky enough to see him in concert with The E Street Band, rest assured that I would've been one of those idiots jumping up and down, pumping his fist in the air, and yelling "BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOCE!!!" at the top of his lungs until his voice gave out, like some ( Read more... )

I've had most of my love for sports drummed out of me, primarily by the antics and rantings of various sports fans, blood relatives and otherwise, over the years ( Read more... )

To anybody who is pleased that the Boston Red Sox won their second World Series within four years on Sunday, 28 October:

Now, I'm not saying that my listening to the Dropkick Murphys' version of "Tessie" 5 or 6 times Sunday night on my mp3 player had anything to do with the Bosox sweeping the Colorado Rockies...

...but I'm not saying that it didn ( Read more... )

Well, deep down, most of us Tiger fans, whether current or once-and-former, knew it had to happen ( Read more... )