The dust seems to have settled on the Steve McNair affair. In the brief span of 10 days, the former NFL great was shot dead, oft-eulogized, and then buried in the ground in Mississippi. And, in what appears to be an open-and-shut police case, the whys and wherefores of McNair’s demise have been neatly summarized and accepted as fact. If you’d asked me 11 days ago what I thought of McNair, I’d’ve
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
All-Star Break Offers Nats Respite from Futility
Posted on 9:52 PM by ergeg
[Editor's note: Approximately 16 hours after this story was posted, Manny Acta was fired as manager of the Washington Nationals. Jim Riggleman was appointed interim manager.] "It's at the point where it's just embarrassing for us," Washington Nationals relief pitcher Joe Beimel reportedly said this past Friday night. "I think everyone in the clubhouse should be embarrassed about the way we play
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
McNair File: Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Posted on 8:41 AM by ergeg
Questions to be asked based on published Tennessean reportage: Report: Though many questions remain, investigators now know that Sahel Kazemi bought the gun that ended her life and killed former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair. Kazemi bought the semi-automatic pistol on Thursday evening from a person Nashville police have not named. She made the purchase the same day she was bailed out
Saturday, July 4, 2009
McNair File: Saturday, July 4, 2009
Posted on 9:42 PM by ergeg
Pieced together from electronic news sources Former Tennessee Titans quarterback and 2003 NFL co-MVP Steve McNair is dead. The 36-year-old McNair was found shot to death in a downtown Nashville condominium this afternoon with multiple wounds to his body and head. Found next to him was the body of 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi, a local waitress whom McNair had met fairly recently. Kazemi had a single
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Preakness 2009: Sometimes the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman
Posted on 10:33 PM by ergeg
By Steve Brady[Editor’s note: In horse racing, a “Derby” is a race set up specifically for 3-year-old colts, and an “Oaks” is restricted to 3-year-old fillies. Every few years, a particularly gifted filly attempts to “take on the boys” in a Triple Crown event. Fillies are traditionally given a five-pound weight break. Rags to Riches beat Curlin in the Belmont two years ago and Eight Belles
Friday, May 1, 2009
The 2009 Kentucky Derby—90% of Life Is Just Showing (Up)
Posted on 9:57 AM by ergeg
By Steve BradyWoody Allen once famously said that “90% of life is just showing up.” His words have special meaning on the first Saturday in May. As this year’s Kentucky Derby entrants convene on a track that few of them have ever run on—at a distance none of them has been proven at, against competition few of them have ever faced, in a stampede twice the size any of them has ever found themselves
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Kalas and Fidrych: Gone But Not Forgotten
Posted on 10:37 AM by ergeg
Longtime Philadelphia Phillies baseball announcer Harry Kalas passed away yesterday, and by all reports he was a well-liked individual and apparently a very nice man. He collapsed in the broadcast booth at Nationals Park prior to the Nationals-Phillies game in Washington, D.C. Death brings a sense of sadness—and an immediate tendency to reflect on the past. Having lived to 73, and having spent 38
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