Dear John Williams – I remember back in high school when we were closer friends than we are now, sitting around talking about our high school basketball battles, Gonzaga against St. John’s when you shifted the focus and decided you wanted to share a quote that moved you in one of your high school classes. […]
Do any of us really know what it’s like to wake up each morning and know that people are talking about you around the world, about your looks, about your sexuality, about your race, about how many turnovers you had last night? Does anyone really know what it’s like to enter a profession, to realize […]
Everybody, listen to me right now. Nothing is as important – not Caitlin Clark, not the Joker, not Wake Forest football, not anything anywhere in America or the other six continents – as what’s going to be firing off in two days at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. In two days, it all begins, the […]
A year or so ago I saw Jerry West interviewed about a book he wrote about his life. He said it was about his troubled childhood when his father physically abused him and his mother. He wrote about his long-standing struggles with mental illness. Because of the sensitivity of the subject matter, his family didn’t […]
There are so many things I don’t like about Sammy Sportface that this framework of listing the top 10 worst things about him feels far too confining and incomplete. The guy has no friends. Wolfford doesn’t like him. Whit can’t stand him. Headrow has had more than enough of all things Sammy Sportface. And Rudy […]
We’ve reached a dead end together. The summer has arrived. You’ve been your usual unresponsive selves. My calling is becoming clear to me and it isn’t this spam blogging and spam texting everybody every day. Why should I waste my cycles on an unresponsive and hostile audience? I hereby declare I’m taking the summer off […]
Staring at the ocean this morning, I realized how little I know about what’s undersea amid the disgust and horror. My curiosity got me wondering what it would be like to walk into the surf and keep walking to see what catastrophes, old disgusting relics, and sea monsters I might encounter. So I got into […]