Somebody will have to explain to me why football coaches believe in developing depth at every position except quarterback. At whatever level, the QBs are the most vulnerable players on the field, the ones most likely to get injured. Yet these days it’s difficult for the backup QB to get snaps even when his team […]

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To: Mr. Eldrick “Tiger Who?” Woods
From: Team America
Re: Easy Ryder Cup at Val Holler
Hey, buddy. Just kidding about that “Tiger Who?” stuff. We know that “you da man,” as those drooling idiots in the galleries like to yell from time to time. It’s just that we’re pretty deep in the champagne here in Louisville, Ky., […]

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When I found out that I had been selected to be a marshal at the 37th Ryder Cup at Valhalla, my first fantasy was that I would be the guy to tell Colin Montgomerie, the notoriously thin-skinned and ill-tempered British player, that his tee shot had been picked up and carried away by a rabid […]

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A couple of welcome visitors have shown up in the Commonwealth the last few days. I don’t know if they came due to the Ryder Cup or were just blown by the devastating high winds that our intrepid TV weather forecasters, Doppler radar and Star Wars sets and all, failed to see coming and warn […]

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If politics were the Olympic Games, the Republicans would win the gold, silver, and bronze in mental gymnastics. At their convention, they lustily cheered outgoing President George W. Bush. But they also lustily endorsed Presidential nominee John McCain’s call for change.
Huh?
Here, to his credit, is what McCain said in his acceptance speech:
“I fight to restore […]

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There’s a lot of chatter on Louisville talk radio about boos at Kentucky and empty seats at Louisville. Both are part and parcel of the same problem – the professionalization of college sports, which is now pretty much complete.
At the UK-Norfolk State exhibition (that’s what it was, just like U of L-Tennessee Tech), a small […]

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Experience is a hot topic these days and I’m afraid the Republicans are confusing a lot of undecided voters. For months, they’ve been attacking Barack Obama for not having enough experience to be President of the United States. But then they turn around and nominate for Vice-President an unknown and self-styled “Hockey Mom” whose resume […]

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I keep thinking it’s a joke. You know, just another example of those wild-and-crazy Republicans trying to put one over on us. But now here we are, several days into the announcement that Sarah Palin will be the Grand Ol’ Party’s choice to be only a heartbeat away from the Presidency, and I’m still waiting […]

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