Observations: Touching many bases in the sports world
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave, thinking on Armistice Day about my dad, who served in The Philippines in World War II. He brought home a Japanese sniper rifle and to the day he died he would not talk about it. Thanks to him and all who served and are serving in […]
Observations: About Fig Newtons, beer vendors and Edsels
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching the Pittsburgh Steelers score 14 points with only one play from scrimmage in 13 seconds. Ben Roethlisberger threw a 75-yard touchdown pass on his first play of the game, then Vince Williams intercepted a Cam Newton pass for a pick-six. And when it was […]
Observations: Sparty still smarting from 48-3 beating last year
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, laughing while reading that the University of Dayton’s Wednesday basketball opponent, North Florida, is nicknamed the Ospreys and its male and female mascots are named Ozzie & Harriet. —This is from the Detroit Free Press (where I worked for a year) about Saturday’s Ohio State-Michigan State […]
Some observations on college football and other stuff
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching a delayed telecast of the Penn-Cornell football game (I’m demented) and I swear there aren’t 50 people in the stands. It is 0-0 and I check something else on my cellphone and discover Penn won, 20-7. Nobody gave me a spoiler alert. —Several football […]
COMMENTS ON: The World Series, the Browns, kickers and punters, the Cavs, the Bell curve
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave from a lost soul after baseball season abruptly ended Sunday night. What now? —Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is a fine, upstanding citizen, but he listened too much to the sabermetrics people in the plush chairs in the front office. He gave away the first […]