On Saturday night, just for a change of pace, I went with a couple of friends to see a professional lacrosse game. Now, if you’re like me, your first reaction to a sentence like that is something like, “There are professional lacrosse teams?” As it turns out, yes. The National Lacrosse League (NLL) has been [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
We generally like it when our schools’ sports programs get called out for some kind of national attention. I have to admit to wearing my Binghamton University (though it was SUNY Binghamton in my day) pride last year when the basketball team made it to the NCAA National Tournament for the first time ever. But [...]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
This is a time of year when, if you’re a sports fan, you hear the national anthem A LOT. Not as much as in January with the college football bowls and the NFL playoffs … but with the major league baseball playoffs, there’s still a lot of people giving their interpretations of the Star Spangled [...]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Ever since opening day in April, I’ve been meaning to get up to Lake Elsinore to see the Single-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres play. I love baseball, and have a SPECIAL fondness for minor league games … which are a lot more like the game I remember playing than what you see in [...]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The plan to avoid the asphalt fumes went very well. After writing all morning, I drove up to Temecula and checked into the Pechanga Hotel & Casino (on the Pechanga Indian Reservation). I’d been there once before to see a friend do stand-up and thought it seemed nice enough … so the mid-week discount rate [...]
Comic Con officially starts tomorrow … but the bulk of the people arrived today, including several friends of mine. Well, a few of us got together to go see a Padres game this afternoon. Turns out it was a GREAT day weather-wise … and a GREAT day timing-wise (it was half-price day on some very [...]
The 2009 Major League Baseball season is underway … and although I’ve got a bunch to do today, I’ve got the opening game of my beloved NY Mets on in the other room. I don’t get to see them much (living on the west coast, as I do) … but they’re always in my heart. [...]
I slept in and missed the first half of the Binghamton game … but was up and on the couch for a nail-biting second half. In the end, though, the Bearcats held out and won … which means they’re the America East Conference champions … which means for the first time in school history, they’re [...]
I’m a fairly long way from my college days (21.5 years and counting), but like many people I still feel a connection to my alma mater. A lot has changed on the campus … for one, the school is now known as Binghamton University rather than SUNY Binghamton. This is fair enough, though, since before [...]
Back at WotC, there was a ping pong table in the “all-hands room,” and a pretty devoted group of players gathered several afternoons a week to put it to good use. In fact, for a few months there, I was playing at least an hour a day four days a week. But after getting laid [...]