One of the most irritating parts of reporting — always has been, always will be — is the waiting. Waiting around in locker rooms. Waiting around in clubhouses (which is what they call locker rooms in baseball). Waiting around on the courthouse steps for the verdict to come in, or sitting in front of a… Read More Call me
Here is my entire high school athletic career, summed up in 10 words: I was the seventh man on a six-man team. OK. So it was a golf team. That might not even qualify as an “athletic career.” It probably doesn’t. Nevertheless, from the time I was a freshman until I was about to graduate,… Read More Gulp
A few years ago, getting my home office together, I dove into a closet filled with 20-some years of sportswriting junk — notebooks, bobbleheads, press passes, various pieces of useless or mostly useless swag, DVDs, media guides, baseballs, hats … junk, I’m telling you — and finally picked out a few things to hang my wall. It’s kind… Read More Scenes from my bulletin board
Apologies. Apologies already. I haven’t been keeping up with the blog for a couple weeks, for a couple reasons: 1.) I’ve been focusing on getting better as quickly as I can, and getting back to work. 2.) Nobody wants to hear any more about doctors or pills or pain or gawdawful hospital experiences. And I’m… Read More What’s happening
The NBA season has begun. Which means — yaaaa, Norm — it’s time for a list. Or, as I prefer to think of it, a post without transitions. NBA vs. baseball. No contest. Glad Kansas City won the World Series. The photos of the parade there, all those baby blue-clad Royals fans — holy criminy,… Read More A list about the NBA
I’ve spent the last seven or eight months wandering through the strange, sometimes exhilarating, often scary world of freelance writing. Like anything (or most things) that have to do with work, freelancing has its good and its bad. It is work that is, blissfully, “location independent” (a term that I learned from the subjects of a piece… Read More The free* life
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