My Weekly Sports Journey for the week ending April 5, 2008

ARE BATHROOMS THE NEW CONFERENCE ROOMS?

Remember Sen. Larry Craig? You know the guy who made an airport bathroom into a tourist site after his arrest? Well, we were told at the time that nothing good goes on in restrooms if you stay past your time, so to speak, that you need to be there; [...]

My Weekly Sports Journey for the week ending March 29, 2008

Kobe better just shut up

The scene is the Lakers locker room on Wednesday night after a sorry looking performance against the Charlotte Bobcats in which the pattern of the last week continued: get down early playing virtually no aggressive defense and claw back in a frenzy hoping to maintain the right energy to win. They [...]

My Weekly Sports Journey for the week ending March 14, 2008

Are they real games or exhibitions?
When I dared to call the MLB All Star game an exhibition after Bud Selig ended the thing in a tie because it was past everyone’s bed time I was yelled at and told I didn’t know what I was talking about. Well, now I’m gonna say the same thing [...]

My Weekly Sports Journey for the week ending March 7, 2008

Favre hangs it up
You know how I know this is for good? Deanna Favre, his wife, when asked by a local reporter from Green Bay if the couple would continue their charitable contributions to the community and their work among various organizations said in a strong voice: hell no. Well she didn’t exactly use those [...]

The Big Cactus seeks Desert Flower

What with Shaq being in the midst of a divorce and all of a sudden being traded across the country, I can’t imagine he isn’t looking for some companionship of the female kind. But let’s face it; he’s got to be picky and careful so I imagined what his personals ad might look like. See [...]

The Thrill on the Hill

Can you imagine what Roger Clemens had to get Debbie, his wife as a gift for Valentine’s Day? A day after he told the world that she used HGH, but he didn’t (allegedly), what is an appropriate way to say I love you? Oh I don’t know….a vacation from HIM, might be nice. I need [...]

Creepy Medical Waste and the Men Who Discuss It

It’s one thing for a woman who is a mistress to a married man to keep a dress with DNA on it in the form of semen and it’s quite another for a male trainer of a famous male athlete to keep gauze pads and syringes with trace evidence of blood on it. Why? Well [...]

The Paula vs. little brother Bowl

My brother and I root for different teams in every sport. We weren’t separated at birth but we took different forks in the road that led to rivalries. As little kids growing up in New Jersey, close to Manhattan, we were in alignment on the football and baseball teams since our Dad ruled the channels [...]

Revenge of the Nerds meets Return of the Jedi

Well, my G Men showed up and won in OT against the Packers when not many folks picked them to win outright, never mind beat the spread. So last weekend I was 2-0 for my picks and feeling real good about it all. But unfortunately we have a dead week between the Championship weekend and [...]

The Final Four for the NFL

Check out my last week’s picks here in this column to see that I ended the weekend at 2-2. Have you seen the cat that picks games on one of the morning ESPN talk shows? Its percentage is about the same as the experts so just call me Fluffy. But seriously folks….I like the fact [...]