Bill Walton, the red-headed Dead Head, didn’t want the championship party to end one June night in 1986. Being the card-carrying free spirit he was, he showed up uninvited at the Brookline, Massachusetts house of his friend and teammate who had gone to bed, woken up, and seeing it was Dead Red, went back to […]
Unexpectedly and suddenly, I feel disappointed and gullible. The one guy I’ve idolized, Larry Bird, turns out to be a less appealing and admirable person than I realized. He was a superb basketball player for sure but most of the time a mean guy. I reach this conclusion after reading a new book by Dan […]
My fame is getting annoying. I just wanted to be left alone on the Wake Forest football field last Saturday during the team’s annual Spring game when next year’s starting quarterback, Mitch Griffis, entered my space. “You’re Sammy Sportface. You’re that sports blogger who writes about the Wake Forest football team off and on depending […]
During fifth-grade recess, the boys would run around the playground playing mall ball. One day my best frenemy Rudy came up to me acting all nonchalant and innocent then punched me in the balls. He racked me. I bent over in agony feeling awful sensations I never had before. He guffawed. “I just racked Chuck. […]
Today while drawing Venn diagrams as part of my typical brainstorming before writing a Sammy Sportface blog, I was rudely interrupted – yet again – by the ferocious roar of four lawnmowers running pell-mell in my yard. The grass cutters were back. Every three days they come by unannounced and cause county-wide noise pollution and […]
Today I got the munchies. Grabbed a bag of Cracker Jacks, or so I thought. Turns out I got a bag of Cracker Jill. Same caramel corn with peanuts. Just a different name. The world is changing. Norms are being blown up. What’s next, Samantha Sportface? The Baby Boomer Sisterhood. Equality envelopes vex us all. […]
Reading a book and the big takeaway is this: Take more naps. Sleep more. Lie around. Be inactive. Don’t exert yourself physically except to roll around on your mattress. Snooze and snooze some more. Roll over. Drool. Rinse and repeat. The author claims frequent sleeping helps your brain relax so when you’re awake you become […]
Sporting their tight Speedos, men and women stand erect with bodies all tanned as their heads touch the cirrus clouds about to launch themselves from 100 feet. Theirs is a dare-devilish act culminating with a big splash diving in pool water hopefully to live for another dive but with no guarantees. These admirable athletes are […]
