New Relay Event Proposals For 2020 Summer Olympics As you no doubt have heard and internalized, the International Olympic Committee signed off this week on a proposal to add a new relay swimming event to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. There will be the first-ever-in-the-Olympics mixed gender relay. Details so far are sketchy. Last […]
Larry Bird “Best of Enemies” Documentary Overshadows NBA Finals Regardless of who won the basketball NBA Finals – if the Series ended last night (went to bed early so I could write this blog this morning) – regardless of how athletic LeBron James is, regardless of the fact that the new season of “House of […]
Basketball at Its Best – Cavs vs. Warriors The Cleveland Cavaliers scored 145 points in the first half of Game 4. LeBron James and Kevin Durant bickered with each other. Draymond Green got two technical fouls and after the second in the third quarter should have been, by NBA rules, thrown out of the building. […]
The Stars and Stripes of My Hometown: Mango, Blue Raspberry, and Pina Colada The go-to colors in the United States are, of course, red, white and blue. Old Glory. Our flag. The Stars and Stripes. In my hometown, the colors are mango orange, raspberry baby blue, and Pina Colada off-white. Look at those three see-through […]
Key For Cavs To Whip Warriors – Kyle Korver It’s not about LeBron James anymore. It’s not about Kyrie Irving either. They only way the Cleveland Cavaliers will upset the Golden State Warriors is if the team’s Kyle Korver gets hot from three-point range. This entire series will be determined by the long-range shooting percentage […]
Finally, No More Fake Basketball – NBA Finals Have Begun Finally, no more fake news and fake basketball. Finally, no more one-and-done, come-and-gone Kentucky teams, no more Greg Popovich sitting out his star San Antonio Spurs players for numerous regular season games, and no more Wizards playoff games. Finally, the NBA Finals are upon us. […]
