On the heels of the firing of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino (written about earlier in a previous blog), Texas Tech has just suspended head coach Mike Leach from coaching in the Valero Alamo Bowl for allegedly going “Dursley” on redshirt sophomore receiver Adam James, son of ESPN analyst Craig James, confining him twice to [...]
Filed under: Coaching on December 29th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ruth. Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Aaron. They will live forever as legends of baseball. America’s obsession with sport, history and the boys of summer will always keep them at the forefront of our collective consciousness. We remember how great they were and reminisce about how great it was “back then”.
Another baseball legend retired this week, [...]
Filed under: Miscellaneous on December 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
Tiger Woods is not the first professional athlete to cheat on his spouse, though he may be the most famous. Golf’s billion-dollar man has a Q factor that is in rarified air. Only a few human beings in the history of the world can relate to Tiger’s life – Muhammed Ali, Michael Jordan… I go [...]
Filed under: Parenting on December 5th, 2009 | 7 Comments »
If you’ve ever had a child involved in youth sports, you undoubtedly have attended the obligatory end-of-season party. Win, lose or draw the team gets together one last time to celebrate the season, whether grilling by the pool or at the local pizza place. This has always been an enjoyable event for me as both [...]
Filed under: Coaching, Parenting on December 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment »