UPDATE: Well, serves me right for picking the Oscars unemotionally. I was THRILLED that Spotlight won best picture, and was PRETTY DARNED HAPPY that Sylvester Stallone didn’t win an Oscar for playing Rocky exactly the same way he’s played it for 40 years in basically every movie he’s ever been in. But because I picked…
Month: February 2016
Donald Trump and the Fourth Wall
There is something about Donald Trump that I have noticed lately — and I hope this doesn’t come off as political because, as you well know, I try to avoid overtly talking politics here. And I don’t want to talk politics this time. No, here’s what I noticed: Donald Trump constantly breaks the fourth wall….
Lots of links
Well, uh, sorry. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. I can’t even explain why it’s been a crazy couple of weeks; it just seems like there has never been a spare moment. I’ll share some of that with you next week, I hope. In the meantime, I’ve got a bunch of stories up at…
Super Bowl L
From NBC SportsWorld: Michael Schur and I write (a lot) about Super Bowl L. L is for Losers
Monitoring the Hall of Fame Monitor
Been working for a while on a big Baseball Hall of Fame idea — hope to have that out in the next month or so. And while doing some work on it, I ran across a wonderful little prediction section in Bill James’ excellent Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame. Bill was explaining his…
Katie the Prefect Revisited
I cannot believe it has been five years — FIVE YEARS — since I wrote “Katie the Prefect.” I was taking my daughter Elizabeth to school, as usual, and as she walked out into the rain, it occurred to me in a new way that she is 14 years old now. She’s a few months…
Gretzky and Draymond
A couple of SportsWorld links for this Monday morning: Draymond Green: Draymond Green provides a language problem … Wayne Gretzky: Trying to define Wayne Gretzky’s greatness without reverting to those amazing numbers … Have something coming later today on Novak Djokovic, something coming on Peyton Manning, something coming on the Bruce Springsteen concert I saw in Washington…