Memorial Day each year impacts many American families as people remember the loved ones lost to war. Some may have had sons and/or daughters in Iraq or Afghanistan, others may have served in Vietnam, others with parents or grandparents in World War 2. Regardless of when and where, this is a shared experience for many
...Read MoreThis week marks the start of another Major League Baseball season. It is my 48th, if you count the 1966 season which I joined “in progress” during the summer, at the age of 10. I’ve been to three opening days, all in Cincinnati where I lived at the time. The first was in 1987, at
...Read MoreWith the NCAA Tournament beginning this week, I am often given to remembering some of the highlights; the games that I have seen at various places throughout my past. My memories begin in 1971, when our family had just moved to Western Kentucky, and that happened to coincide with the year that Western Kentucky University
...Read MoreThis is what it all boils down to, right? The Baseball players (or any sport) , intimidated or obsessed with their physical limitations, in the name of competition, and the organizations who look the other way for the same reason, are selling out the true competition of the athletic confrontation by succumbing to the “success
...Read MoreWe didn”t have one of those this year (the final margin state was called at around 11:10 EST), but we’ve lived through a few Presidential elections which took us well into the wee morning hours, and sometimes, to see the morning light. Ohio (once again the state that enabled the winner to top 270
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