I watched the Tennessee Titans lose to the Miami Dolphins yesterday afternoon, 29-17. The Dolphins lost their first- and second-string quarterbacks—the two hanging Chads, Pennington and Henne—to injury during the game, yet the Titans couldn’t take advantage of the situation. Miami’s last QB standing, Tyler Thigpen, finished off the victory, looking savvy and determined and making me wonder—after
Monday, November 15, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Nats Win! Nats Win! (Sort Of): Rangers Offer Redemption for Aging Senators Fans
Posted on 11:33 AM by ergeg
My brother Steve has a baleful saying: “We’re gonna die just in time...” It is his commentary on being a certain advanced age—older than 40, at least—while experiencing the absurdist, wrongheaded and presumably irretrievably corrupt sociopolitical state of the world in general and the U.S. in particular. In other words, things are so bad that death looks good.
Normally, I agree with this
Normally, I agree with this
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Sucking Their Way to Respectability
Posted on 9:33 PM by ergeg
It’s been a long time since this blog has seen any action. Let’s skip the whys and wherefores. Instead, let’s get right down to engaging in our favorite sport: knocking sports media.
There’s always so much to dissect and ridicule, but some tidbits from Saturday’s TV coverage should suffice.
It’s hard to know who to begin with: Cornball has-been Dick Enberg or super-weenie, speech-impedimented
There’s always so much to dissect and ridicule, but some tidbits from Saturday’s TV coverage should suffice.
It’s hard to know who to begin with: Cornball has-been Dick Enberg or super-weenie, speech-impedimented
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Strasburg Doesn't Disappoint in Nats Debut
Posted on 11:48 PM by ergeg
In 1971, the Washington Senators broke my young heart when they up and moved to Texas to become the Rangers. The caliber of baseball pretty much sucked in hometown Washington, D.C., but I still loved the Senators. They were my team. When I moved to Chicago, I got two teams for the price of one, Cubs and White Sox, and that was okay by me. Since I wasn't a Chicago native, I didn't bring any of
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Start Spreading the News: NFL Bosses Will Find Worm in Big Apple Super Bowl Decision
Posted on 12:31 AM by ergeg
The worst thing that ever happened to this country was 9/11. Not only because thousands died in the WTC terrorist attack and Bush subsequently fought a stupid war, but also because that event put New York City back on the map in a real obnoxious way. Increasingly, in the last couple of decades leading up to 9/11, Americans were more and more discovering the values of Sun Belt, or more southerly
Thursday, April 29, 2010
You Gotta Play to Win—The 2010 Kentucky Derby
Posted on 9:36 PM by ergeg
By Steve BradyThe interesting thing about this year’s Kentucky Derby? The horse I think is best equipped to win it didn’t even get in. SETSUKO is only 1 for 8 in getting to the winner’s circle, but he has been showing steady improvement with each start, and has a powerful closing kick that I thought would give him a strong chance against this field. He also had one of the most visually impressive
Monday, February 22, 2010
His Heart Belongs to Daddy
Posted on 4:21 PM by ergeg
Sometimes the smallest little news items can grab your attention. Such as the AP story today stating that Kevin Gilbride Jr., son of New York Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride Sr., has been added to the Giants' coaching staff.This kind of blatant nepotism wouldn't be so bad if Jr. had a competitive resume. I mean, really, isn't making it into the NFL coaching ranks the dream of many a
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Not So Bright...
Posted on 11:04 PM by ergeg
Poor Tiger Woods. So talented. So rich. So pheromonal. So messed up. Media reaction to Tiger’s apologia publica Friday has ranged from astonished praise to outright cynicism. As for me, I’m trying to find the middle ground, though it’s not that easy to do. Like newspaper writer and TV bigmouth Stephen A. Smith, I am tending toward mistrust on Tiger’s mea culpa. It’s not that I don’t think Tiger
Friday, February 19, 2010
The Heart Chronicle (Part 5)
Posted on 1:57 AM by ergeg
So I’m finally at home, rebounding from cardiac surgery and the shock of it all, glad to be within my own four, very dingy, walls. Then my friend, singer Stacey Shaffer-Bishop, calls me, and says she’s coming over with stuff for me to eat. And gosh darn if she doesn’t bring me a big, big pot of homemade chicken soup (no salt used in its preparation), coffee, matzo crackers, salad greens, some
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Heart Chronicle, Part 4: Mostly for Men Only
Posted on 8:11 AM by ergeg
I received three particularly interesting phone calls within a day or two of my surgery. All were from males. All were non-smokers, right around 50 years old. All lived alone. All expressed their concern for my brush with mortality, but I perceived something else behind their words and their cautious attitude. Suddenly, I was doing the listening. And I guess that was okay because I had endured
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Brad Paisley's Crappy Happy Talk
Posted on 6:52 AM by ergeg
A few words about Brad Paisley’s video, Welcome to the Future, which I continue to see in rotation on CMT, though it’s been more than six months since its release. How about “Yuck”? Or “Ugh”? Paisley, well-respected as a country artist, has finally jumped the shark. About as "country" as a shopping mall in Minnesota, Paisley unselfconsciously strives to use his considerable podium as a way to “
The Heart Chronicle (Part 3)
Posted on 4:28 AM by ergeg
[This is the third installment of a multiple-chapter essay on my recent heart surgery. Scroll down to read Parts 1 and 2.] In the early morning of Feb. 13, about nine hours before my release from Vanderbilt Medical Center, I became increasingly emotional. Sitting there in the dark, my roommate asleep but snoring on the other side of the partition—my short-term ordeal coming near to its end—I
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Separated at Birth?
Posted on 11:47 PM by ergeg
Actress Starina Johnson (Stuck!) NASCAR's Danica Patrick
The Heart Chronicle (Part 2)
Posted on 10:12 PM by ergeg
[This is the second installment of a multiple-chapter essay on my recent heart surgery. Scroll down to read Part 1.] Following my surgery, I have some vague recollection of being wheeled somewhere and perhaps even of being on an elevator. (Wondrous sedatives keep the new heart patient in a heavenly guessing game.) By the time I got my mental bearings, and some physical clarity, I found myself in
The Heart Chronicle (Part 1)
Posted on 6:20 AM by ergeg
Today is Day 4 in my new life as a heart attack patient. I entered Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Emergency Room at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11. I had driven myself to the hospital after experiencing strange chest discomfort and increasing pain, of a sort that would make any aware person realize that action was needed. I wasn’t exactly sure what was wrong, of course,
Monday, February 8, 2010
Hattiesburg or Bust: Where the Horny Sports Guys Go
Posted on 7:16 PM by ergeg
Hattiesburg, Mississsippi: Home of the University of Southern Mississippi, Brett Favre’s college career...and horny disgraced sports figures. Until today, I had missed the story about former Mets GM and former ESPN baseball guy Steve Phillips’ sex addiction travails. I wondered (sort of) where Phillips was on ESPN hot stove coverage, though I was never a fan of his bluster and I can’t say that I
Saints, Sinners, Losers, Winners: Super Bowl-ing in Nashville
Posted on 6:14 AM by ergeg
Nope, I have no problem with the Saints winning the Super Bowl. Good for them, and always cool to see a previous non-SB winner join the esteemed club. Now let’s get working on the Browns, Lions, Eagles, Bengals, Titans, Texans, Jaguars, Panthers, Falcons, Chargers, Vikings, Bills, Cardinals and Seahawks. (Man, that’s a LOT of teams who have never won a Super Bowl in a supposedly parity-rich
Friday, February 5, 2010
Nashville Scene's "Pith in the Wind" Runs With "Sports Xtra"
Posted on 2:12 AM by ergeg
http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2010/02/sports_xtra_not_your_daddys_sp.php
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Kiffin Bolts Vols...and Good Riddance
Posted on 2:22 AM by ergeg
Nashville's latest sports radio talkathon is happening on weeknights on WNSR, 560-AM, 6-9 p.m., with up-and-coming nattering nabobs Jeff Thurn and Henry Nichols offering an alternative brand of gab and opinion. Two nights in and the young duo's chemistry and penchant for chatty wisecracking definitely sounds like a good idea. The twosome banter and take phone calls, and if that doesn't so far
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