I’ve heard many complaints throughout my life that Baseball’s World Series is improperly named. It’s not a battle I feel like fighting, but I’d have to agree with the complainers. Frankly, the United States and one city in southern Canada do not the “World” make. So, perhaps the complainers are right to argue their point at every turn, but I’d rather […]
The Night Cary Grant Hooted
Photo courtesy of Dr. Macro’s High Quality Movie Scans It started with Cary Grant screaming. Well, maybe you’d call it more of a hoot. “Squeal” is too high, “scream” too sharp. It’s this startled “whoooo!” sound that’s rather difficult to describe. It was 2006. The Olympics were in Torino and I was in Alaska. It was February, one of our […]
Staking My Claim
Croatian Flag and Football Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net The Euro Cup begins in two days. In less than a month, the hopes and dreams of fifteen nations will be dashed, and one will be celebrating. I read an article today that pointed out that in 2010, Americans got on board with the World Cup with the exciting run of the […]
School Spirit
Late in the fall of my senior year of high school, my friends discovered that I’d never been to a football game. They informed me that this situation had to be rectified before I graduated. I resisted them. I’d made it through nearly four seasons without attending a football game and had not yet felt the lack. Generally, I am […]