A Thorn Among the Roses

I was just listening to the sports podcast The Distraction, which mentioned Tommy Craggs, a writer I like and haven’t bumped into in a long ...

  With Steph Curry sidelined due to a hamstring injury, the Golden State Warriors bombed out of the NBA playoffs the other day. Curry being ...

Chet Lemon died the other day; he was a very good major league outfielder during my youth and young adulthood, and was the center fielder on...

  It’s been 16 years – time for a Super Bowl post. I don’t watch much football in recent years, but I generally succumb to the NFL conferenc...

Pete Rose died yesterday.  I wrote about Rose in 2004 , and that post is a good statement of my "history" with him. He had just pu...

Born in 1938, Jerry West grew up in Chelyan, West Virginia, in a dysfunctional family within a hard-bitten coal mining community. Young Jerr...