Category: Sports

In case you missed it, the Wright State Raiders won the Horizon League Championship, which gives them an automatic seeding in the March Madness basketball tournament. This was an unexpectedly successful season.  They started the year at 5-5 and played

It’s always a great day when you can go bicycling outdoors in Ohio in early December.  My buddy and I did roughly 23 miles on the famous Dayton River Corridor in 52F weather.   Not too shabby…  

I would have to say it was a pretty fruitful weekend for our sports teams…  We attended two Wright State Raiders basketball games in addition to one Dayton Flyers game.  All of these contests had the home team winning.  In

We went to the Ohio State (#6) vs Penn State (#2) game yesterday in Columbus and saw a doozy of a football match-up.  Due to the fact that the Buckeyes had to overcome all sorts of adversity (much of it

There have been more interesting comments about the NFL than you can shake a stick at, such as here, here, and here… It doesn’t surprise me that the most cogent observations come courtesy of Victor Davis Hanson: Meanwhile, the NFL

You can call me old-fashioned or a sports-traditionalist, but I don’t care for all the commentary around sports, or the efforts at treating it as ‘entertainment’.   I may represent a small minority, but I attend games or watch them

For more than 30 years, we’ve been attending the annual ATP tennis event in northern Cincinnati (about 45 minutes from our home).  It’s not been one of the better years for player participation at the Cincinnati tennis tournament.   Only

I would have never thought that Sela could beat Isner… Is this a replay of ‘David vs Goliath’?  Go figure: American John Isner is out of the tournament as the No. 23 seed lost to Dudi Sela 6-7 (5), 7-6