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
Monday, February 22, 2010
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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
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