Fun NCAA tournament fact: The last time a 13 seed advanced to the tournament’s Sweet 16 was 2012 — when the Ohio Bobcats shocked Michigan in the first round and continued to advance. The Bobcats’ seed this year? They’re a 13. Look out, Virginia. Am I suggesting that you pick OU in your entry to… Read More glory days.
Fall used to be a lot busier than it is these days. For most of the last two decades, about half of our fall weekends were spent driving to Columbus, prepping a tailgate party for somewhere between 10 and 20 people, going to Ohio State’s home game and then coming home on Sunday. For several… Read More the good old days.
Waaaaaaay back in 2007, I said I was retiring the tag “Hopeless Cleveland Sports” from Uncle Crappy. I made the decision based on a sudden rash of tolerable performance by the Cavs and the Indians and a draft by the Browns that included now-certain Hall of Famer Joe Thomas. It got even better later that… Read More hopeful cleveland sports.
A couple nights ago, I was flipping channels and came across Urban Meyer’s B1G kickoff luncheon news conference from Chicago last week. After watching Urban’s far-too-brief presentation, I started feeling the familiar twitch that i seem to come up with at around this time every year. I type the schedule into our calendar. I start… Read More 2. one.
I thought I had already said goodbye to Derrick. When I found out last week that he had died, I realized I was wrong. And this was harder than I thought it would be. I hadn’t seen Derrick since … my wedding, maybe, almost 17 years ago? I have a more definite memory of my… Read More another lifetime ago.
I had a good run with the Grateful Dead. But by 1994, my expectations were diminished. I started seeing the band in the mid-1980s, during a pocket of high energy, powerful tours that peaked, for me, at Riverbend in 1985 (otherwise known as the show when I “got it” for the first time). Garcia’s diabetic… Read More the last time.
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