I saw The Rookie last night for the second time. I liked it a ton the first time, and it still holds up. It still moves the viewer. John Lee Hancock directed this 2002 biopic starring Dennis Quaid as Jimmy Morris, who made his major league baseball debut at the age of 35.Drafted out of high school in 1983 by the Milwaukee Brewers, Morris bounced around the minors for six years, then chucked it
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Rookie: Still Inspiring Belief in Baseball, Even When We Know the Awful Truth
Posted on 2:36 AM by ergeg
Monday, March 24, 2008
Chalk Talk: When NCAA Brackets Bleed Davidson Red
Posted on 3:58 AM by ergeg
If you’re anything like me, you have an NCAA bracket stained with blood. Mine, I’m afraid, is probably redder than most. I play a limited chalk (higher-seed) game. In the opening round, I mostly pick favorites, but I leave some leeway for teams that I think will surprise.The bracketeer who went strictly chalk in the first round this year would’ve ended up 25-7 in the first 32 games. I was 23-9,
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
March Mudness: Clarifying the Murky NCAA Field for Stalwart Bracketeers
Posted on 3:03 PM by ergeg
Yes, I’m going to fill out an NCAA bracket. No, I’m not going to share it with the world. It’ll be tough enough to deal with my failed projected upsets in private, much less have the international blogosphere be privy to ‘em. Instead, I’m going to share my wisdom about this year’s teams. I’ve crunched a lot of data in the past few days, and I think I have some worthy observations that might help
Monday, March 3, 2008
Titans Get Crumpler While Key Linemen Leave En Masse
Posted on 11:21 PM by ergeg
After the opening weekend of NFL free agency, some Tennessee Titans fans are scratching their heads. I’m with ‘em. I don’t know when I’ve ever seen three veteran defensive linemen up and leave a team so quickly, all at the same time. In the blink of an eye, defensive end Antwan Odom, defensive tackle Randy Starks and defensive end Travis Laboy all signed new contracts with other teams. They were
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
SUPER TUESDAY SPECIAL: The Sheeple Have Spoken
Posted on 1:53 AM by ergeg
There are primaries yet to come, and it’s a long way out till the party conventions in summer. Still, after yesterday’s Super Tuesday contests, it might fairly be said that the “sheeple” (pictured, left) have spoken. Prospects for the wannabes shifted but didn’t effectively change. Save for Mitt Romney, who surely is dead mutton no matter how hard he says he intends to keep fighting. His big
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Alway$ Follow the Money: Who’$ Giving What to the Politico$, Tenne$$ee Edition
Posted on 4:42 AM by ergeg
Ever wonder about those vast sums of political money that keep flowing in to campaign coffers? I know I do. Mainly ‘cause I can’t afford to give hardly a penny. With football season out of the way, and sports in general in the doldrums until March Madness, we’re going to get more political around here, and that means introducing you—if you’re not yet hip—to FundRace2008.Thanks to the
Monday, February 4, 2008
Super Bowl Dumb Stuff
Posted on 1:07 PM by ergeg
Great Super Bowl. Loved every minute of it. I had a very dispassionate but totally sincere interest in the game. If the Giants won, we had a cool upset. If the Pats won, we had history. Once the Pats took a 14-10 lead late in the fourth quarter, I kinda thought it was over, and I was all for history. When the Giants kept battling in their final drive, I thought, “Well, if they can pull it out,
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