Category: Sports

I watched the Blue Jackets lose in the shoot-out tonight (in a game they should have won)… FSN-Ohio showed some interesting stats during the shoot-out — the shoot-out goal success rate for each player (goals scored divided by the quantity of

I know that everyone is focusing on Ohio State moving up to #1 in the college football polls…  However, you shouldn’t overlook the Ohio State hockey team.  The Buckeye skaters beat the Wisconsin Badgers Saturday night in Dayton to win

Friday night I went with five colleagues (Mark, Chris, Erol, Randy, and Joe) to catch two college hockey games at the Lefty McFadden Invitational Hockey tournament.  We arrived a little after 5:00pm at the Nutter Center for the first game between Wisconsin

Here’s a name that you don’t typically read from the Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports — Benny Feilhaber.  His family moved from Austria to South America prior to the Holocaust, and he grew up playing soccer in Brazil.  He moved

Yes, it’s true.  Missy and I were watching Pete Sampras playing a senior’s match against Anders Jarryd on the Tennis Channel last night.   I went on the web and checked the ESPN site where I discovered that Sampras will be

I started playing relatively regular tennis around six years ago, when I found good quality players (e.g, Curt Crocker) to arrange for a weekly outing.   In the past three years — after ceasing my play in basketball leagues — I increased

I went bicycling with my buddy, Steve Weiss, over the weekend and we rode about 30 peaceful miles on the River Corridor until “Adelweiss” took a spill.   Even though he was wearing warm-up pants, he got a nice foot-long strawberry on

It’s still the NHL preseason, but there is some great action in watching a fight between the two New York teams (thank god, I couldn’t bear to watch any more boring baseball highlights). [youtube]NFcMtIHD-Gw[/youtube] 2 min 6 sec