Archive for October, 2008

Arizona Cardinals signed tight end Stephen Spach yesterday. Spach joined the Patriots late last year and held on to a roster spot as the team’s third tight end until he committed a false start penalty against on a kneel-down play against the New York Jets in the dying seconds of the second game of the [...]

Surely, after snagging two interceptions, making a successful onside kick, converting a fourth and one and stopping a fourth and one and still losing the game the Saint Louis Rams must be thinking: What the Faulk? With their backfield and secondary both ravaged by injuries and with their receivers dropping passes all over the field [...]

I can’t imagine many AC/DC fans are disappointed by the hard-rockin’, hard-livin’ band’s latest album, Black Ice. Black Ice is 15 tracks of solid AC/DC-does-AC/DC blues-punkish metal. I don’t think there’s one bad song on Black Ice (a critic of the band might argue that if one likes one AC/DC song, why wouldn’t one like [...]

The New England Patriots pounced hard on a listless Denver Broncos team, beating them 41-7 in a Monday Night Game at Gillette Stadium. The Patriots received three big breaks early in the game. Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler slammed his throwing hand on Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork’s helmet on the first play of the game, [...]

What did the Iraqis find after America left their country? A Red Sock on every base. [Uh, wait a minute, the Sox just tied the game. Holy cow. And fifteen minutes past midnight they won the came! Quite a turnabout. On to Game 6. Wrap up Tampa Bay's world championship hopes and send them burning [...]

The incident must have raised issues of disability, gender, age and race, as the members of the appropriately named Duke 88 might have put it. But maybe it’s a teachable moment that can one day lead to reconciliation, healing and, if we’re really lucky, closure. Here’s a summary of the incident: Old coot with cane: [...]

Starbucks is facing a logistics problem: The multinational, market-dominant coffee-beverage retail giant has been out of spoons for its oatmeal for a month-and-a-half (according to one, possibly exaggerating store manager), forcing store managers to fend for themselves. Some store managers buy bulk at restaurant supply outlets or similar places while other managers buy spoons at [...]

The San Diego Chargers, seemingly reeling after a slow start to the season, handed the New England Patriots a butt-whupping of epic proportions by beating the reigning AFC Champions 30-10 while throughly dominating every phase and aspect of the game. The Patriots had their chances to turn the tide or at least keep up but [...]

One of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign ads claim that Senator John McCain offers no tax relief for 101 million families. According to the the United Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 2007 there were 112 million households in America last year, 75 million of which were family households, 35 million of which had children under the [...]

Whenever I hear politicians or pundits talk about the American people making sacrifices I think of store parking lots and the enormous sacrifice shoppers routinely choose not to make. I’m talking about returning one’s shopping cart to a shopping cart corral. Sometimes it’s an arduous six feet journey, sometimes it’s a 100 feet death march [...]