For your consideration (and b/c after a night with Goose and Lex Luthor I’m so blasted I can’t manage anything else);
From Victor Lustig, the legendary con man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice,
TEN COMMANDMENTS OF A CON MAN
1) be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talk, that gets you your scores)
2) never look bored
3) wait [...]
This is fucking ridiculous! What’s wrong with you? All that training for what?
-Eddie Chambers trainer implores his fighter to show a little effort after the sixth round of Saturday’s snooze fest
You fighting like you don’t want to fight!
-Chambers trainer, after the seventh, with what should become a classic line
Are you listening? You have [...]
I have a crystal clear feed of the fights from Germany, so hop onto Justin TV if you want to watch Vitali Klitschko battle another American challenger. Also, I’m adding longshot Pulsion to the mix, with Radiohead and Rule, in this afternoons Florida Derby. Some nice action coming up…
GRID IRON…The New York Times “Fifth Down” [...]
The first rule of blogging should be to write every day. Okay, but that rule needs an amendment. No one should be attempting to structure coherent thought on the day after St Patrick’s Day. Simply put, my St Pats was amazing. How was yours? I spent yesterday drinking water and nibbling on spoonfuls of mashed [...]
This was a nightmare of a day for me growing up. My Irish blood was currency in Canada and I was always summoned to the front of the class on St Pat’s to give a presentation about the history and nature of Ireland. I was nervous and shy, so from about seven years old I [...]
GRID IRON…Jake Delhomme, who can’t play even a little anymore, will draw 18 million dollars in compensation in 2010. He’ll receive money from his old team, the Carolina Panthers, and his new team, the Cleveland Browns…it might be down to the Oakland Raiders or the Chicago Bears for Terrell Owens. It will be interesting to [...]
GRID IRON…the New York Jets opted to release Thomas Jones because, at 31, he was on the downside of his career. The move startled and demoralized teammates. The Jets have replaced Jones with LaDainian Tomlinson, a thoroughly washed up and beaten up player. How does that make sense? Tomlinson has a big name but, currently, [...]
Rachel Alexandra was a shadow of herself yesterday at the Fairgrounds. Her work tab was indicative of a horse nowhere near her best and she ran to those works. One particularly worrisome aspect of her performance was her inability too battle back, when given every chance, against Zardanna. She pinned her ears back and did not [...]
The Hurt Locker is a brilliant blur of a film. Unmistakably a Kathryn Bigelow work, the movie uses the thesis “War Is A Drug” to explain how a man who is competent, focused and a father, deteriorates and dissolves into a course of action that must ultimately lead to his death. The Hurt Locker is a [...]
This is the inscription on Bono’s gate, outside his home in Killiney, Dublin. Nice to contemplate its message as we prepare for some extraordinary action in the world of sports on Saturday;
In the service of God one can learn three things from a child and seven from a thief.
From a child one can learn 1) [...]
