Category: Sports

For the past several years I’ve taken part in a family fantasy football league. Each year when draft time comes around, I start my process of figuring out how I’m not only going to draft my team but also keep track of the full draft results. As a member of the league, I want to draft the best possible team. As league commissioner, I need to know the full draft results because I’m responsible for…

  The Seattle Sluggers, a beep baseball team, started playing last year. One of the local TV stations just ran a story on the team. I thought the reporter did a good job at explaining the sport and not making people who are blind sound either helpless or like super freaks, the two ends of the spectrum that can often happen with this kind of story. I am part of the team and find it…

With baseball’s opening day just a couple days away, a friendly note for anyone who might not have purchased a Gameday Audio subscription yet. MLB is advertising this year that if you subscribe to Gameday audio on a device such as an iPhone, one subscription will work on the device as well as the MLB.com web site. While this is true, the reverse is not. That is, if you subscribe to the web site version…

Sports journalism is an interesting arena. Where else does new grass make headline news. I read ESPN reporting about a new playing surface for Lambeau Field. Then too I still have a box of packaged dirt from a previous resod of Lambeau back when the Packers were playing in Super Bowls. The team sold boxes of the dirt at $10 a pop and donated the money to charity. What won’t sell when a team’s doing…

Here’s a cool tune about Brett Favre someone pointed out to me in e-mail. Favre certainly has become a legend and here’s hoping he chooses to add a bit more to the history he’s creating.