Question: What’s Your All-Time Favorite YouTube Clip?
Sean MurphyNo pressure, right? Favorite YouTube clip? That’s like asking what’s my favorite orgasm (answer: all of them) or best bourbon on the rocks I’ve ever savored (answer: most of them,…
33 Thoughts about Villanova vs. Georgetown, 1985
March Madness, indeed. The timing could not have been better: gearing up for another annual marathon to see which team emerges from the fray (and that’s just my personal bracket),…
Do You Believe in Miracles? (Revisited)
On Feb. 22, 1980, in a stunning upset, the United States Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-to-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the…
Bill Buckner, Mookie Wilson and Me (Revisited)
(10/2011) I've never been able to appreciate the aesthetic perfection (that is to say, the perfection of baseball's most imperfect play; it's most jarringly incongruous moment) because it was too…
Congrats, and Cheerio, to the Ultimate Class Act
If you have not seen the clip of Mariano Rivera's last game in the Bronx yet, you need to. Check out the extended video, HERE. You know it's real when…
Thoughts on the Olympics, Improvisation and Jay Adams (Revisited)
The Olympics, particularly the two most popular sports from each season—the gymnastics and figure skating—sells itself, accurately, as an embodiment of competition and tension, complete with a touch of voyeurism.…
The Bittersweet Science, Part Four: Four Kings (Revisited)
Let's finish this four part post off by letting Kimball, and the Kings, do the talking. Duran was fifteen and walking his girlfriend home from a dance when they encountered…
The Bittersweet Science, Part Three: The Fight (Revisited)
Let's end the suspense and get this out of the way right up front: Hagler vs. Hearns on April 15, 1985 is the best sporting event I've ever witnessed. First,…
The Bittersweet Science, Part Two: Getting Acquainted with the Late George Kimball (Revisited)
Every so often there is a confluence of events that, if you're lucky or perceptive enough, leads to a revelation. Other times there are just the happy accidents that function…
The Bittersweet Science, Part One (Revisited)
It probably says something about evolution that the younger generations see the future as expansive, malleable and positive while the older generations eventually—and inexorably—see the past as safer, simpler and…