Indy 500 Apprehesion

Today my co-workers were going on and on about the Indy 500. I’ve lived in Indiana since 2001. You would think by now I would be all about the race, but eight years later I barely recognize drivers’ names.

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Who Can Blog At a Time Like This?

You may be wondering why we didn’t publish a post earlier today. But who can focus on the day of the FedEx BCS Championship? The day has come. Boomer Sooner, baby! Boomer Sooner. All you whiny burnt orange peeps better cheer on your crimson Big 12 peeps. On the national scene, it’s all about conference love.

Or not.

Go Sooners!

If you’re not watching, get your butt over to a tv and turn on FOX HD. The game is already on!

Has College Football Returned to DFW?

It’s football season, again. I love the smell of pigskin in the morning. Saturday morning’s are not just for sleeping in anymore. Sure, my Saturdays will probably consist of waking up around 10am, watching College Gameday on ESPN, and then spending a good 6-9 hours of my day flipping between the slew of games available. This is a common practice for the first few weeks of the college football season. After awhile, the initial sugar shock will wear off and my viewing habits will taper down.

I have the benefit of having grown up in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. When I was young, the Southwestern Conference was in its twilight. It is safe to say that in 1986 when Southern Methodist University received the “Death Penalty” from the NCAA, the SWC was effectively done for. The Death Penalty did more than penalize SMU’s athletic programs and dig the SWC’s grave, it destroyed all the buzz about college football in DFW.

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Sports Announcers: The Necessary Evil

In my last post I talked about how much I love the Olympics and it is true, I do. However, there is a part of the Olympics that drives me crazy and I am talking about the announcers. To be fair, I rarely like the announcers in any sport, John Madden in for Sunday Night Football drives me to drink sometimes. “The team that scores the most points will win the game.”

I realize that the announcers are a necessary evil and when there is no sound it can be annoying. I think it is the excessive talking that bothers me the most followed by the over hyping. Every athlete is the best athlete in the world, be it Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Michael Phelps, the list goes on and on. My favorite is when they will say not only is he the best in the world but he is the best in the universe. Really? How many athletes have you been able to cover outside of this little ball of soil and water that we call Earth?

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The Olympics: What Could Have Been and What Is

For the last few days I have been watching hours upon hours of Olympic coverage. We did not leave the house all day Saturday or all day Sunday because of the games, of course it did not help that it was over a hundred degrees here in North Texas. During this time we watched beach volleyball, cycling, basketball, swimming and of course gymnastics, the track and field events will be coming up soon and I am quite excited about that.

However, as exciting as watching the men’s four by one hundred swim relay was, the Olympics will never be able to achieve the dreams of French nobleman Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin. He had hoped that the spirit of unity would solve world problems such as hunger and war, sadly this will never be the case. There was war before the Olympics began on 08/08/08 and there will be war after they end, ironically on the day of the best opening ceremony ever a new war started when Russia invaded Georgia.

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I Believe in the Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars have changed a lot since the last time their name and roster were inscribed onto the Stanley Cup.

I had a more difficult time than I anticipated getting back into hockey after the lockout.  The few seasons before that had been hard—the Cup had been snatched from our collective grasp by the New Jersey Devils, and the team never seemed to really recover after that.  The Stars racked up a few more division championships, but just couldn’t get past the conference semi-finals and go all the way. 

When the lockout happened and the season got canceled, I was so disappointed with the NHL in general I almost gave up.  But when the new season dawned, I just couldn’t help myself.  I couldn’t turn away from my team.  (more…)

The Supreme Discipline of Running

(President Jimmy Carter jogging. Public Domain Photo, courtesy of Wikipedia.)

My mom keeps telling me to “walk, don’t run” (which is, by the way, the title of Cary Grant’s very last movie shot in 1966).

I love my mom. But what she doesn’t know is, walking and running are like water and gasoline. They are two totally different categories of metabolic burn. Walking simply does nothing for me in terms of weight loss.

In my decade-long battle with fat, it always comes to this: I either get out and hit the pavement or watch myself turn into the Goodyear blimp, real fast. (more…)