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The Penn State board of trustees fired legendary Head Football Coach Joe Paterno tonight — this in spite of the fact that Paterno announced he would step down at the end of the season after an unprecedented 46 years as head coach and 62 years of dedicated service to the Penn State program. They did […]
Somebody forwarded me a collection of photos that have the effect of making you realize that you really don’t have a bad job, or a bad life, and things could be worse. You think otherwise? Take a look.
Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry’s instantly notorious brain freeze in tonight’s Republican presidential debate is immediately one of the all time most embarrassing moments in Presidential politics — right up there with Dukakis on the tank and John Kerry windsurfing, although to be sure, those were just weird visual juxtapositions, and this this is a […]
Fight week is on, and we’re three days for the trilogy fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. The oddsmakers have Pac-man a 7-1 favorite even though the two are separated by a single point after two epic bouts — a 2004 draw and a 2008 split decision won by Pacquiao by a single […]
Within hours of Penn State head coach Joe Paterno’s announcement today that he would retire at the end of this season in the wake of the child sexual abuse “tragedy” that has engulfed the Penn State football program, a CBS News poll was running 52-48 in favor or Penn State’s Board of Trustees forcing Paterno […]
Watching Herman Cain’s categorical and unequivocal rejection of sexual harassment claims by Sharon Bialek and Karen Kraushaar at his press conference today, a thought that had been forming within me for some time crystallized: this guy suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). I’m not a psychiatrist but I’ve had substantial reason to study this affliction […]
Paterno’s Son says JoePa wanted to talk
Philly.com is reporting that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was not the one who canceled today’s press conference, according to his son. Scott Paterno, Joe Paterno’s son, said that his father did not make the decision to cancel the press conference. “If he had it his way […]
It’s a sad day indeed when one of the very, very greatest icons of American sport, 84 year old Joe Paterno, renowned not only as the winningest coach of all time but also honored for running one the cleanest programs of the country, looks likely to be forced into retirement if not worse by the […]
I guess Floyd Mayweather can’t stand all the attention Manny Pacquiao is getting as he gears up for his November 12 showdown with Juan Manuel Marquez, or maybe Mayweather is just losing it. Either way, last night Mayweather decided to call in to Rude Jude (real name Jude Angelleni) on the latter’s radio show and […]
The boxing blogs got a nice little jolt of adrenaline last night when Dan Rafael of ESPN quoted Mayweather advisor Leonard Ellerbe as saying: “We’re looking to make the biggest fight possible and everyone knows what that fight is, the little fella,” with the “little fella” being, of course, Manny Pacquiao. All the blogs […]
In the midst of all the important stuff going on in the world, something REALLY important happened last night on Dancing With the Stars — Maksim Chmerkovsky tried to rescue his damsel in distress from the evil judge Len Goodman and in doing so became overly aggressive and downright disrespectful. The best moment in the […]
A year ago today my true friend Rufo Balicas — a good, humble, and honorable man if ever there was one — passed away unexpectedly, and I spontaneously wrote a post entitled: Remembering My Good Friend Rufo Balicas. Rufo was an amazingly talented, creative, and hardworking grip who could make magic happen on a […]
Well, it’s not smack when you compare it to the ugly utterings of, say, Floyd Mayweather, but make no mistake, for Manny Pacquiao, the upcoming Pacquiao-Marquez 3 on November 12 is personal and he clearly has an edge building up inside him for this fight that has been lacking for quite awhile — perhaps not […]
I have to confess that prior to Nonito Donaire’s championship defense against Omar Narvaez on Saturday night in New York City, I was at least halfway onto the Donaire bandwagon. His string of explosive knockouts had gotten my attention; as had the praise that was being lavished on him by the likes of Hall of […]
Those who drop in around here occasionally know that I’m a mega-happy and lucky husband who finally got one thing right in his life and that’s the most important one — finding the right person to spend life with. From time to time thoughts of how it all ends comes to mind, and Rena and […]
The death of Moammar Gadhaffi is still being carried as “Breaking News” on CNN and the other networks, but already some fascinating details of the behind the scenes details are beginning to emerge. Some of these are just intriguing on their own merit; other details shed light on the “lead from behind” approach to Libya […]
For the last several hours the media has been reporting that Zaneville Ohio police armed with night scopes have killed 25 or more exotic wild animals who have escaped from the Muskingum County Animal Farm — an Ohio exotic wild animal farm that contained bears, lions, cheetahs, leopards, wolves, as well as giraffes and other […]
Manny Pacquaio has a way of being amazing on many levels — but what amazes me more than anything is to watch his rise through the “Power Athlete” rankings that are released each year by Bloomberg-Business Week — a ranking that is based 50% on performance, and 50% on of-field clout. This year Peyton Manning, […]
I’ve gotten to the point in life where anytime there’s a buzz out there in the science community about something that bears on longevity, it gets my attention. And so it was that Wednesday’s publication in the journal Nature of new research on the blind, hairless, naked mole rat came up on my radar screen. […]
As the mainstream media starts to pay attention to the Occupy Wall Street (and LA, and Austin, etc) movement, the effort to figure out what this movement is really all about is intensifying. But rather than seriously attempt to understand it — the mainstream media is instead projecting its own orientation on it and “painting” it in […]
From Steve Jobs 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford: My third story is about death. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 […]
I’m not someone who thinks a lot about architecture — but this got my attention and tickled my fancy. BNKR design in Mexico City has come up with something that at first sounds a bit on the creepy side — but upon examination is quite oool — a 1000 foot deep inverted skyscraper in the […]
Sorry, but does it seem like every time they make any changes on Facebook, the whining is so loud it just about drowns out any ability to appreciate the innovations that are being introduced? For the last couple of days I’ve been reading non-stop accounts of what’s wrong with the new changes. Really?
Here’s what […]
Every once in awhile someone comes along who just makes a lot of sense, and Elizabeth Warren is one of those. I’ve been listening to her for several years now — previously as she worked s a financial reform advisor to the Obama White House; now in her new incarnation as a Senate candidate in […]
Since 1985 Denise Herzing and the Wild Dolphin Project have been breaking new ground by studying a group of approximately 100 dolphins in the Bahamas in their natural habitat — tracking their lives, relationships, offspring, and studying their communication and socialization. Think of her as the Jane Goodall of dolphins and you’ll have a […]
It looks like it’s going to be very busy on the boxing scene the next couple of months with the ongoing brouhaha over Mayweather-Ortiz-Cortez and the buildup to Pacquiao-Marquez, so out of deference to those readers who are NOT boxing fans, I’ve decided to give the boxing posts a home of their own at MS-Boxing.com […]
Referee Joe Cortez has been getting plenty of heat from all sides since Saturday night’s controversial finish to the Mayweather-Ortiz fight. As Sunday wore on, the concensus seemed to be growing that it was Cortez who should bear a significant portion of the blame for the debacle, for not giving clear instructions to the boxers […]
The Mayweather Ortiz fight is over in bizarre fashion, producing a moment second only to Mike Tyson biting a chunk out of Evander Holyfield’s ear in terms of outlandishness. Although Mayweather was the author of the bizarreness, to be sure, the sequence started with Ortiz head-butting Mayweather in apparent frustration as he pummeled Mayweather in […]
The air show accident yesterday in Reno is still reverberating — at this writing, the death toll has risen to 9 including pilot Jimmy Leeward, and with the high number of victims in critical condition there will clearly be more loss of life. Since this began to unfold yesterday afternoon, I’ve been thinking not only […]
The Dutchman was written by Michael Peter Smith in 1968 and became a minor but intensely appreciated hit (in folk/acoustic circles anyway) in America by Steve Goodman — over the years it has gained a following, to the point that’s now become a true folk song, sung and loved around the world, with cover versions […]
