Delaware may have dashed my sports betting dreams, but they are finally stepping up with table games. If all goes as planned, casino patrons in Delaware could be playing poker in April and have a full assortment of games two…

My wife pretty much only follows one sport – tennis. That means the current action at the Australian Open is one of the few times she gets truly engaged in the kind of idiotic emotions I feel all the time…

I like to drink good beer. To further this quest, I like to try new beers from breweries I usually don’t get to sample. That led me to a sampler case (since Pennsylvania’s stupid laws make it almost impossible to…

I took my daughter to see “Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel” last week. I took one for the team, you might say. Surprisingly, the movie was not the most disturbing thing I saw that day. As we waited…

The other weekend, I had to officiate a youth wrestling event. The action got started around noon, and I walked up to the high school kids working the table for my mat and asked them a very simple question. “Are…

Twenty years ago today, the world changed. Food tasted better. The air smelled a little fresher. Life just improved overall. MC Hammer released his single U Can’t Touch This on Jan. 13, 1990. Think about it. Twenty years and one…

I come from a long line of couch sleepers. Like my father before me, I appreciate the bliss of sawing logs on the living room sofa. Sometimes it’s because I can’t fall asleep in bed for some reason or another….

A wonderful thing happened last week. Magical, almost. The Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a law which will allow casinos in the state to offer table games such as craps, roulette, blackjack and poker. Six months from now, I will have…

I totally spaced on Peter Buck’s birthday earlier this week. I don’t really pay attention to their birthdays that much, but remembered that two of them were very close . I can just never remember which two and when it…

When I started my new job a little over a year ago, I made sure to dress nicely on the first day. I wore a shirt, tie and jacket like I had at previous jobs. The jacket matched the pants…