Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I have been wanting to learn hurling, the oldest field sport in the world, to prove we 60-year olds are still young. Hurling is an Irish sport dating back more than 3,000 years. Some say it is the sport that gave birth to every other sport -- lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, baseball, football, tennis and [...]
The world gets smaller, a little crazier and a lot more interesting every day. For instance, yesterday I had lunch with a woman I only know through our respective writing. Carolotta Schmittgen lives in North Carolina and writes a great blog called Lotta Sports. (If you just left this blog to check out hers, I [...]
Thirty-five years ago, I wrote an article encouraging Brewer and Packer-obsessed Wisconsin sports fans to follow the Milwaukee Bucks. Headlined "It's too soon to pass the Bucks", the column argued that an Alton Lister slam dunk from a Sidney Moncrief alley-oop was at least as exciting as a nine-inning baseball game, and suggested that a [...]
Congratulations to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. As a Packer fan, I know a thing or two about great quarterbacks and our big three -- Bart Starr, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers -- own their special place in history. But, Tom Brady has won six Super Bowls and lost three. Nine Super Bowl [...]
We've had better sports weekends here in Wisconsin. Our Badgers lost 38-13 at Michigan, our Brewers lost 4-3 to the Dodgers, and we lost a Hall of Fame Packer running back Jim Taylor, who died Saturday morning in Baton Rouge. But, here's the thing about sports and the athletes who play them: their legacy lives [...]