GRID IRON..San Francisco went 0 for 11 on third downs against the Minnesota Vikings this past Sunday…the Dallas Cowboys have produced two 200 yard plus rushing games back-to-back for the first time since 1979. Taking the ball out of Tony Romo’s hands can pay dividends for the Cowboys…best player in the NFL the past two [...]
I’m attending a reading tonight by Canadian author Wayne Johnston. I’ve had the great fortune of striking up a friendship with the man, the continents greatest living writer, and on the day of a special event I thought I’d recount the bizarre circumstances of our first meeting.
I had gone out with the Beat Poet for [...]
GRID IRON..whispers have Pittsburgh safety Troy Polamalu out for another five weeks. The Steelers travel to Cincinnati to face a healthy and bullish Carson Palmer this Sunday, an opportunity for punters to observe just how important the injured safety is to the squad. The Bengals will be up for their traditional rival and it will [...]
GRID IRON..a must read for football fans is the Sporting News weekly “Scouts” column. Their observations are keen and gutsy, fearlessly calling out underperformers and the overrated. Their conclusion this week is that Tony Romo will never develop into a big game player. Sharpies are really in a fit over Romo’s hopeless performance Sunday night [...]
GRIDIRON…I’m not confident enough to use a “suicide” selection, but in my mind the Tennessee Titans are unlikely to start their year 0-3, even if their Sunday opponent is the ultra hot New York Jets. Taking 2.5 is a nice incentive…Sporting News top five ranked NFL teams looks like this; Giants, Colts, Falcons, Vikings and [...]
The reverberations from two nights with U2 are still rumbling around my brain. What a brilliant couple of shows. I know, I know, it’s time to move on, and I will, just let me have one last stroll through the glory that was U2’s 2009 invasion of the Big Smoke.
After a front row view of [...]
I’ll spoil the surprise - this story ends with a front row, rail grabbing view of U2. Here’s how it begins;
I headed down to the Rodgers Centre for 4.45pm. I was making a good start mainly because I had to locate the Will Call and collect my tickets. Once that was out of the way [...]
“I don’t fell like paying three hundred dollars to have Bono explain to me why I’m an asshole”. The Beat Poet, politely declining an opportunity to attend a U2 gig.
It has been an interesting day.
It’s a world of toil and turmoil, a devil’s playground structured with an emphasis on the immediate and the tangible, cultivated to [...]
The unspoken background to last night’s New England Patriot - Buffalo Bill cliff-hanger has to be the proliferation of “Suicide” Pools (simple, pick a winner and move on) in North American culture and the fact that hundreds of thousands of punters had the Pats as their pick. Yours truly was one of the throngs [...]
Sunday ushered in a spell binding day of football. I ended up staying in front of the tube all day, unable to wrest myself away from the developing storylines and tub thumping action.
Let’s start with Mark Sanchez, New York Jet QB of the future and, as is evident, the present. It is not being [...]
