Tag: "sports"
There’s No Crying — or Lightning — in Soccer!
I’ve played a fair amount of competitive sports in my life, and have watched quite a bit more. I’m familiar with the lame excuses a loser can concoct to make their loss sting a bit less. However, I’ve never seen an excuse quite as grand, nor delivered quite as earnestly, as the one given by [...]
The Delivery Presents – Panic at the Podcast
What happens when your Super Mega Producer e-mails you a few hours before the show to tell you that he has no internet connection? Why, you wrangle a Super Mega Fill-In Producer and carry on with Episode 94! Many thanks to Joe Guzman who jumped into the fray and did a great job. Did I [...]
I Am A Washington Sports Fan and I Know Pain
As a Washington, DC sports fan, I’m used to a certain amount of soul-blighting disappointment. I know what it’s like to watch year after year of abysmal failure broken only by the tease of middling success that makes you think that maybe things have turned around only to watch grim reality dash your hopes against [...]
A Blur in Yellow and Green
Holy crows, this is fast. That was Usain Bolt running 100 meters in 9.58 seconds, a new world record. The old record, which Bolt set at the 2008 Olympics was 9.69 seconds. To compare, the man who finished second in that clip, Tyson Gay, came in only .02 seconds slower than the old record and [...]
Okay, But What Happened to the Guys’ Leg?
Now I think I understand the glassy-eyed look I get from non-sports fans when I talk about My Beloved Redskins or the Capitals. I ran across an article in the UK’s Times Online which, I swear to you, is utterly incomprehensible to me. I know it’s recapping a cricket match (game? contest? googly?) and that [...]
That’s What You Said