Watching Hank Aaron hit his record-setting home run from 1974, it almost means more to me now than it did then. Why? Because I am so glad I saw it as it happened. I was 10 years old when Aaron, in the national spotlight as the season opened amid his chase of Babe Ruth’s record, hit the 715 th home run of his brilliant career. When Aaron passed away at age 86 on Thursday, so many of us thought abou
Don Shula, the winningest coach in National Football League history and hailed by his team as the “patriarch of the Miami Dolphins franchise for 50 years,” died on Monday at age 90, the passing of a legend who said he only wanted to be remembered as a coach who did things the right way. Of that, there is no doubt. Shula oozed integrity and class, universally respected and beloved. He is the person
Our entire family came down with COVID recently and we’re all fine but I have a few observations. The first is a serious public service announcement: Don’t put your health at risk, get the vaccines. All three of us were vaccinated, but I was the only one who had recently gotten the booster, as my wife and son were not yet eligible. So what happened? Our son recovered quickly because he is vaccina
Florida Keys resident Marc Serota saw his share of future NBA Hall of Famers as the Miami Heat team photographer for more than a decade. Serota never missed a home game in his tenure. He was there for the franchise’s first game in 1988. He was behind the lens for all three of the team’s NBA championships. Along the way, he also captured memorable images of NBA superstars on the visiting teams, inc
Fall is such a beautiful season, but not because of the crisp air and lovely colors. It’s because I’ve finally got a chance against the mosquitoes. They’ve been mocking me since May, laughing at my efforts to keep them out of the house, feasting on family blood with reckless abandon – life’s been pretty good for the creature most of us regard as the worst part of summer living. Well, at least unti
The Dallas Cowboys last won the Super Bowl in 1996 and last season may have missed their best chance since to claim another championship, when a 12-5 campaign ended with a playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Yes, most are tabbing Dallas as this year’s favorite to win the NFC East and on paper, it’s a sensible pick. From a statistics standpoint, Dak Prescott is the best quarterback in the divi
The AFC East looks like a competitive division in 2022 and it will be – for second place. Defending division champ Buffalo should have gone to the Super Bowl last season and even in the brutal AFC, the Bills are my pick to represent the conference this year. Miami will be improved and New England is hard to figure, while the Jets will be more competitive than they’ve been in years. Here are my 202
This is a story about setting goals and achieving them, in this case my goal to acquire a new television. I’m sharing how I accomplished it in case you are a goal setter too. And I should clarify. It’s not just buying a TV when you’re married, it’s about bringing a new TV into the marriage. You always hear that as a devoted spouse you need to be regularly thinking of ways to keep your marriage int
Every season in the NFL there is that talented team that brings in the veteran quarterback in hopes of finally getting to a Super Bowl. It usually doesn’t happen, but never say never: It happened last year with the addition of Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams, who persuaded the Detroit Lions (who else?) to take the uninspiring Jared Goff off their hands. L.A. went on to win it all and that
Tom Brady led the NFL in passing yards (5,316) and touchdowns (43) at age 44, and he won’t care at all if an improved Tampa Bay running game in 2022 puts a dent in those numbers. After all, the man is 45. Tom Terrific is all about winning Super Bowls – he’s got six with New England, one with Tampa Bay – and last year the Bucs didn’t get there, getting out-dueled by the eventual champion Los Angele
The Kansas City Chiefs have hosted the past four AFC Championship games, but they’ve only won two of those matchups and one of the two Super Bowls they’ve appeared in during the Patrick Mahomes era. Chiefs fans believe they should have at least one more title, but by any measure, K.C. is on a great run. But are times changing? The AFC West they’ve dominated under Mahomes has improved top to bottom
Conventional wisdom says never pick an NFL team to repeat as Super Bowl champions. It’s not bad advice: Only one team can repeat as champion, 31 cannot. Who’s betting on the one? This may be a year worth thinking about it. The Los Angeles Rams may be even better than last year, but the champs are already being disrespected by oddsmakers – who are routinely pegging L.A. no better than the fourth-be
Turn on the lights, the (ant) party is over It’s hard to sleep when you know the ants are on the march. I mean, they’re always on the march somewhere – you probably didn’t know that – but it’s when you know they are marching against you that everything changes. Before we go any further, I want it on the record that I didn’t start this skirmish. I have nothing against ants. It’s unlikely anything c
In a stunning rebuke of the pandemic, I went to a movie. in a movie theater. Twice. And now I am pondering whether I am done going to the movies. It’s not the experience it used to be. One problem for the industry is fewer people seem to have any interest in going. Between the COVID variant du jour and fears of active shooters, weighed against streaming services and take-out at home, the base of p
OK, so you’ve fallen for the bait. You’ve jumped into this column looking for valuable marital insights from an experienced husband, and by experienced I mean a man on his second marriage. You’ve got two choices: Don’t listen to me because I screwed up my first marriage or listen to me for precisely that reason. But I have to say, I am on a roll. Not only am I remarried, we are headed for our 12 t
Moving to a plant-based diet is something my wife and I discuss from time to time, usually over chicken dinner. Notice I did not say vegetarian, which means I would not ever eat meat, versus “plant-based,” which is the newer, trendy term that you can use at parties to make yourself sound cool and more like an athlete. It also seems to indicate that such a diet would allow you to base your diet on
Sooner or later you reach the point in life when you don’t have to get injured to be injured. Things just hurt and you can’t even say when or how it happened. For no good reason, you’re injured. Went to bed the other night feeling fine. Woke up with a sore neck, an injury suffered during the night. Now you might say I “slept on it wrong” and somehow hurt my neck, to which I have a simple question:
I lived 50-something years on Earth without seeing James McMurtry live in concert, which I needed to remedy because I often turn to him when the moment calls for reflection. McMurtry, 60, is a singer/songwriter, known as much for the brilliance of his writing as his performances. His songs are heartfelt commentaries on life in a changed America. He writes about love and losing it, living in a worl
You can’t escape your redneck past, and I’ve given up trying. I can only hope to contain it. With a tomato plant. And that’s what precisely what I’m doing. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that our array of 5-gallon, recycled, food-grade white buckets housing tomato and ‘Kentucky Wonder’ green bean plants creates a visual effect that shall we say, might not call to mind the manicured grounds surrou
Only in professional golf can something that makes the sport take even longer be called an innovation. Even better, this breakthrough involves putting, which already was the slowest part of the game. Apparently not slow enough. PGA Tour pros who don’t rate as the greatest putters will do anything to get the ball in the hole. There have been all sorts of approaches used to read greens. But there’s
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