There is no escaping these people! You know the feeling when you walk into your favorite shoe store to buy a new pair of dress shoes and within 5 seconds, some sales person asks if you need help. Sure, just get out of my face for about 5 minutes and let me COME TO YOU […]
College sports these days are certainly not like your dad’s or grandpa’s memories of college athletics. It is a big multi-million dollar business. The cost of televising the current NCCA basketball tourney runs into the billions of dollars. Major college basketball and football are big time sports in this country. It was only a matter […]
Every once in a while, I get asked about my relationship status from family members, relatives, co-workers or buddies of mine. When I explain to them that I am single, no girlfriend and not married, I get a couple of reactions.” Well you are a smart man, Mark”, stay single is one response and the other […]
During a very cold Saturday morning not long ago, I decided to check my paper to see what was on the good old tube for the day. I was kind of in the mood to watch a sporting event, so I grabbed my newspaper television guide and turned to the listings. Perhaps there was a […]
There are certain things that people attempt which could be placed under the impossible category. The odds of accomplishing these tasks are so great that even a small amount of success could be seen in a positive way. For example, if I played LeBron James in a game of one on one to 11, I […]
Sometimes a news story occurs which totally baffles the mind and leaves you scratching your head. You anxiously await for further developments to get a better understanding of what is exactly going on. Such is the case with this incredible story about the missing Malaysian plane. There seems to be so few facts about the […]
The other night, I attended a very exciting high school playoff basketball game. A trip to the state tournament was at stake and both teams fought tooth and nail until the end. One the last play of the game, a shot that would have won the game, rolled around the rim and out. The game […]
Flash back about 4-5 years ago. A very prominent conservative politician made a rather bold prediction that had many mocking and ridiculing her. The politician, former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin predicted that Russia would one day invade Ukraine. “How could she make such a foolish statement!!, it will never happen” was the typical response […]
The big news story of last week was certainly the controversy over a bill in Arizona, which would have given businesses the right to refuse services to people based on religious reasons. Of course, many gay and lesbian groups were at the center of this debate because they could have been in a position of being […]
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