A few weeks ago my husband, on a work trip to Washington D.C., waltzed into the eccentric craft beer bar we used to frequent when we were newly dating residents of the nation’s capital. The bar’s longtime owner Commie, a rough on the exterior (patrons...
“What’s next?” President Josiah Bartlett, The West Wing I retired from gymnastics at age 18, after 15 years of training (10 competing). My body was tired and I knew that my academic major (athletic training) would preclude me from compe...
Mel Kiper. Todd McShay. Mike Mayock. Their mocks may vary but they and all the other known draftniks have one thing in common: maleness (and with very few exceptions, whiteness). The lack of women not producing mock drafts is hardly the burning issue o...
Catching you up on all the NFL news and nonsense you may have missed over the weekend... Keep on Bortlin’ The Jaguars gave Blake Bortles an extension worth three-years, $54 million that brought out the BORT license plate...
MINNEAPOLIS -- As the hub for the Patriots, Eagles, the media and a plethora of Super Bowl week events, The Mall of America is as tightly secured as a child-resistant bottle of aspirin. Bomb-sniffing dogs and policemen donning weapons can be found through...
Saint Paul, Minn – What do a shark, several (under) dog masks and Nancy Kerrigan have in common? They were all on the floor at Xcel Energy Center as the Eagles and Patriots spoke with the media for the first of several times this week. ...
While vacationing in Lake Tahoe over New Year’s, my son threw a stray football to another kid he had just met. "Wow, you threw that just like TB12!," the boy noted. Tom Brady’s brand building has been so masterful in such a short period of time tha...
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.—As practice winds down in the Buffalo Bills' ADPRO Training center, 34-year-old Kyle Williams runs through last-minute defensive end drills like a giddy little kid. He pushes and shoves some of his teammates, laughing...
No Christmas gift is better than a win for a football team, especially those of playoff clinching variety. Ok, maybe a private island or center orchestra Hamilton tickets is a little better but I digress. As always, we are tracking all the locker rooms...
In one of my fantasy football leagues there is a small “Police Blotter Award” for the team whose player first gets arrested during the season. It’s hardly a prize to glorify, especially as crimes have escalated from shoplifting to domestic abuse in ...
