Philadelphia faces a bunch of questions. They answered a big one – can this collection of players actually create a good team? – with aplomb. PLUS: Mat Ishbia brings a water pistol to a knife fight.

The hockey season is well and truly underway, with games coming thick and fast. For Belfast Giants this has meant a lot of games against their usual trio of Scottish opponents in the Challenge Cup,…

Former college players remember Pat Murphy fondly. This graf reminded me of a Vince Lombardi technique : ...Former Notre Dame outfielder Mike Rotkis recalled a 28-10 loss at Western Michigan in…

We were ahead last time too.

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"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

Watch Listen “Escape competition through authenticity.” Naval Ravikant Five days after he won the 2016 Formula 1 world title, Nico Rosberg retired. “This season, I tell you, it was so damn tough,” he…

For the fourth year in a row, the foursome of Luke, Nick, Walsh and I hit the road for a Vikings road game. After successful trips to Las Vegas, Nashville and Detroit where the Vikings won all three…

I am happy to see that this year’s World Series will be the Rays versus the Brewers. As one would expect I would sure prefer the Phillies to be in the finals, but they were ass this year and did not…

Written down now, graded later, no edits allowed. The Brewers and the Rays open the World Series on 23 October 2026. Before the first pitch, I’m putting five predictions about the Series’…

Samson Dauda, 2026Just to start off with a concrete example, there was a disembodied stagehand’s hand backstage that reached up and helped the center stage doors close almost every time a…

You hear the stories. The coach who regularly sleeps in his office. The assistant constantly on the road recruiting. The football strength coaches who have to be at the 6:00 AM and 9:00 PM lifts…

Nacional Pescara: The European Champion Spain Almost Lost for Ten Euros On October 5, 2024, in a Brussels saleroom run by the French auction house Aguttes, the government of Catalonia bid against an…

Can [they] get [it] back?

A volatile, three-game week meant just about everybody dropped points as desperation time nears

The 2026 season has finished and here is a look at the UCI rankings for the year. There’s the three year promotion and relegation contest to note. More immediately we can see which teams are…

I make no apologies for my football fandom. I support the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I think every other team in the NFL is a sad third-place at best squad. That being said … the afternoon AFTER…

This year I’m especially pleased because my picture is not of helmeted technicians piloting their multi-million dollar preying mantis up and down a rectangle of carefully chosen flat water… but of my…

In 2005, an online chess site ran a tournament with almost no rules, an early test of what people now call centaur chess: humans and computers playing as one team. Anyone could enter. Teams could use…

Twenty-five years ago, NFL kickers made fewer than one in four field goal attempts from 55–59 yards. Now they’re making nearly two in three. After reading my January 2025 post on kicker…

Today we believe that the oldest living Romanian Olympian, Francisc Horvath, is celebrating his 98th birthday. We featured Horvath in our Olympic medal mysteries series some time ago, as he won…

JV with another opportunity to get some valuable reps this evening in a matchup against the CAK Warriors. Let's go Lions!!

Because who hasn’t dreamed of reaching ludicrous speed with nothing between them and the pavement but their life flashing before their eyes, downhill skateboarding world champion Diego…

The inaugural episode of the Throwing Rocks Podcast features an interview with Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock and Unionville’s Shane Konings to […] The post Throwing Rocks Podcast…

Will the real hockey fans please stand up? Believe it or not, some teams have already played more than 10% of their seasons. We've had some surprises, and plenty of things have gone exactly as…

10th October 2026 Oxford City FC were making one of their longest journeys of the season in the Conference North, taking on league newcomers Hebburn Town on the southern side of the River Tyne. It…

Njabulo S. Ndebele, Boxers Die Alone: Reflections on Boxing in the Eastern Cape (Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2026) OVER four decades […]

I went racing in the daily driver again.

A lot of chopping, a lot of changing, and not much rhythm as 2026 limps towards the finish line

My pick: listed first. Home team: CAPS. Post-game comments, if any, in italics. Took an 0-8 beatdown last week, which means I’m due to win big this week. London: Jags -2.5 vs. Texans ❌ 1p:…

I genuinely don’t get the point of winning with an opening trap. Let’s put aside that it will stop working quicker than the clickbaiters like to admit. When you repeat a memorized line you learned…

3:0 English weeks in the 3rd Bundesliga. Away at Ingolstadt on Sunday, at home against Aachen on Wednesday, and away again in Regensburg on Saturday. The new manager, Jochen Seitz, seems to have made…

College Football is dead to me 5 years ago I wrote about my declining interest in college sports in I'm Over College Sports . For the most part that is still true, although I do relapse during March…

If you’re subscribed to this blog, you may have noticed that I’ve not written anything for a couple of months. There’s a reason for that. Even though I’m making slow progress at improving my go…

Formula 1 Round 17 2026 recap: Verstappen sweeps the Singapore weekend, winning both the sprint and the race. Leclerc finishes P2 and Antonelli P3, while Hamilton misses out on a podium after staying…

A running list in no particular order I am objectively bad/a beginner Chess is a brutal game, losing hurts, rating doesn't lie Whenever I make a jump rating, I inevitably lose it all and more at some…

Well, that was it last night. No more baseball for me in 2026. It’s not just that my top three fave teams are now eliminated after that painfully anticlimactic game in Los Angeles last night…

Greetings and Good Vibes to you, Fine Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🪀 I’m mesmerized by Hajime Miura’s…

Signy hasn’t fought since the end of August, but an opportunity came up for a match at Max Muay Thai’s Daily Fight. She took it with a day’s notice against Hongthong KorPrasertGym.…

Welcome to Week 6.

This guest article by Ontario’s Maurice Wilson is the first of a two-part series on delivery mechanics and mastering weight […] The post Developing precision in your curling game appeared…

I don’t even know where to start with this game. It was absolutely, well, bananas! About a month ago I had gotten a call asking if I was going to the game and if I’d be willing...

Wednesday afternoon I made my way to Charlotte and we drove down to Savannah for the Banana Ball Playoffs that would kick off Thursday night. Thursday we had tickets in another new section (to me) at…

Did you notice the rider protest and eloquent speech calling for improved rider safety and expressing the fear of the risks involved? You might have heard Remco Evenepoel’s version but Dorian…

It’s your serve. You have strong serves. You know if you execute the serve well, your opponent might miss. You plan your serve. You really whip the serve in. So far so good. Now you watch to see if…

Marvin E. Newman’s Color Photography Of Game 7 Of The 1964 World Series Marvin E. Newman was a photographer who took thousands of baseball photographs, many for Sports Illustrated during the…

I should admit now that I'm not much of a basketball fan, and perhaps that's my problem. I see the appeal, of course. Superhuman athleticism. Knowable numbers of outsize personalities. Seamless…

Randy texted me about the exciting finish to the ND/Stanford NCAA football game. It made me smile. Not the result, not even the topic, but the excitement. A parent is only as happy as his least happy…

2027 HIGHWAY TO HELL ULTRACYCLE – 300km (200 miles) to the Gates of Hell, Turkmenistan COME SUFFER WITH US! Just kidding, kinda. This event, and this trip, wil change your life. It’s the…