Sports may not be the be-all and end-all we came to count on. Many of us have only recently grasped that, as sports content disappeared from our TV diets, shoved aside by a microscopic but deadly bug known as Covid-19, or the Coronavirus.
Entries from March 2020
Our Priorities Were Misplaced
March 17th, 2020 · 1 Comment · Baseball, Basketball, English Premier League, Football, Olympics, soccer
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Languedoc Wines: Big Values at Small Cost
March 9th, 2020 · 2 Comments · France, Languedoc, Wine
A reader asked for information about the experience of finding and consuming the often-quite economical wines of the Languedoc region of southern France. In theory, I should be an expert, after four-plus years based among the rolling hills and vineyards in this part of Occitanie, but that would be an error. I like wine well […]
Shaquille O’Neal and a False Dawn in Sunny Phoenix
March 3rd, 2020 · No Comments · Back in the Day, Kobe, Lakers, NBA
This is another entry in the “Back in the Day” series, where we look back at a sports event I wrote about for the newspaper. In this case, the nearly forgotten 2008 mid-season trade of Shaquille O’Neal from the Miami Heat to the Phoenix Suns. The idea in Phoenix was that Shaq would be the […]
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Shocking and Delightful End to Liverpool streak
March 1st, 2020 · No Comments · Arsenal, Champions League, English Premier League, Football, soccer
The biggest story in world football since the most recent Champions League final (May, 2019) … was Liverpool’s dominance of European soccer. Before their game at Watford last night, Liverpool not only was being called “the best club football team in the world”, and they had some staggering numbers to back up that assessment. Unbeaten […]
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