July 17, 2017
Friends, How about a cheer for the old folks as Roger Federer continues to amaze with another Wimbledon title, his record breaking 8th victory. And while Venus Williams came up just short in her 20th Wimbledon at age 37, they both deserve kudos for another great Grand Slam performance. While I was working on the […]
July 10, 2017
Friends, With the July 4th holiday passing, it means we had some great fireworks (especially in DC) and that the Tour de France is rolling in France. With 9 of 21 stages complete, the riders have reached the first rest day today with 4-time champ Chris Froome racing up the Mont du Chat yesterday to […]
June 26, 2017
Friends, Despite the searing 100+ degree heat, the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships came to a stirring finale yesterday at Sacramento State. Dalilah Muhammad led a scintillating 400M hurdle competition, Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs threw haymakers at each other in a crowd-pleasing shot put and Olympic 1500M Gold medalist Matt Centrowitz was clipped […]
June 19, 2017
Friends, I hope you all enjoyed your Father’s Day as much as I did. I was completely out of control running a 10K with Adam in the morning (he smoked me in the last two miles: 39:00 to 41:50), officiated 6 lax games with Hannah, then went with all three (and sat in the prime […]
June 12, 2017
Friends, Another exciting weekend with a $450 million POWERBALL winner (not me), Pittsburgh winning the Stanley Cup for the second straight year and scoring a winner in the Belmont. While I had the Win/Place order reversed, I still won a $5 Exacta (which paid out $115) on Saturday as Tapwrit outdueled Irish War Cry to […]
June 5, 2017
Friends, The jet lag of the red eye last Monday/Tuesday helped me overlook a big happening in the lax world last week. On Monday, Maryland’s Men’s team broke a 42-year drought of “almost wons” by beating Ohio State 9-6 to take the NCAA title. The day before, the Maryland Women won their 3rd title in […]
May 30, 2017
Friends, Happy unofficial beginning of Summer… Pardon my grogginess, but I stepped off a red eye from LAX this morning and then tried to get Hannah back on a plane to Boston so her Wellesley field hockey team can head to Europe. I had further delays when Hannah’s luggage for Europe to got lost en […]
May 22, 2017
Friends, I obviously cannot start today without some heartfelt words of tribute for Soundgarden front man Chris Cornell, who passed late last week at the young age of 52. Normally, I’m not one to get choked up over early rock star deaths, but for some reason, this one hurt more than the rest. As you […]
May 15, 2017
Friends, Hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day, taking some time to celebrate the important moms in our lives. I spent the entire afternoon at DC101’s Kerfuffle with Stacey, listening to a bunch of groups she loves. I did get to hear Weezer, so that was awesome. In fact, today, while you took your car […]
May 8, 2017
Friends, Another exciting Kentucky Derby on Saturday. As I said, with Lookin At Lee and Battle of Midway sloshing through the mess to Place and Show respectively, the payouts were HUGE on the $2 exacta ($336.20), trifecta ($8,297.20) and superfecta ($76,974.50). I was hopeful at the top of the stretch as Always Dreaming led and […]