Book Review: A Season on the Mat
As a sportswriter, I always wanted to write one of those books where you spend a whole season with a team and chronicle their ups and downs. When I left the writing side of the journalism game on a full-time […]
ITEOTWAWKI: Getting Closer
Three months ago, I expressed my wish that R.E.M. wouldn’t wait until spring to release their new album. They indicated that they had finished work so I wondered why they would wait until March or April to let us in […]
The Snuggie Predicament
The way people react to change fascinates me. As a society, we have so many new things at our disposal, but sometimes we simply retreat into a stubborn position and wish everything would just always stay the same. That’s a […]
A Modest Proposal for Wrestling
This coming weekend, the nation’s best college wrestling teams will face important dual meet tests. Well, most of them will. And some of them will be competing against each other. You see, two events will bring together the nation’s best […]
Pacing Myself
When I found out last year that I had to travel to Indianapolis for business for a few days, I immediately began to make plans. I knew some sporting event had to fit into my schedule over the four days […]
Reading Challenge: Year 3
Two years ago, I set a goal to average one book per month. I didn’t necessarily need to read one every month. I just wanted to finish the year having completed a dozen books. I managed to pull that off […]