Category: Sports

It’s unusual for the Wall Street Journal to have an article about sports, but there was a recent WSJ editorial about the lack of success in the NFL by Heisman Trophy winners: In the modern era of the NFL, only a

On Saturday afternoon, the entire family watched on television as the Dayton Flyers beat the 11th ranked Louisville Cardinals, 70 – 65.  Saturday night, Bear and I went to the Nutt House to watch the Wright State Raiders upset the 13th

I didn’t realize it, but over the last couple of weeks I completed a major tour by attending 6 games involving 6 different teams in 3 different sports: 1. NHL Hockey – Columbus Blue Jackets – 11/15, see posting here 

Len and I convinced my father to join us for the Dayton Bombers hockey game on Saturday night… The Bombers looked tough in the 2nd period going up 4 -2, but were greatly outplayed by Reading in the 3rd period and

I made it to the big basketball game at Value City Arena last night to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes take on the #1 ranked North Carolina Tar Heels.  My buddy, Steve Weiss, had great tickets for the game amongst

On Sunday, I attended my first Cincinnati Bengals football game in almost five years… you’ve probably read some of my previous postings and the futility of the Bengals over the last 20 years; and given their performance last week, I wasn’t

I’ve been watching the three exhibition matches between Pete Sampras and Roger Federer on the Tennis Channel; and since I’m now officially an “old guy”, I was naturally rooting for Sampras.  During the first match, Pete looked halfway decent but

A contribution from marathon runner, Becky Keller… Here is a clip of my son’s race… he is a class 1 pro and luckily avoided the crash, but his buddy captured it on video here.  The race was a  1 kilometer, 6

I went with Mark Kelly to the Wright State Raiders home opener last night at the Nutt House.   The Raiders started slowly against Coastal Carolina, but ended up with a convincing 71-48 victory.   It appears that Todd Brown and Vaughn