And you thought Costco was supposed to be about bargains.
The scary part of this is … these might be bargains.
If you hope to attend the Super Bowl, in Indianapolis next week, Costco has packages for you. Yes, the same people who sell you massive quantities of peanut butter, corn flakes and paper diapers and lots […]

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Seems like time for a list.
I’m pretty sure I’ve noted on this blog that I am among a rapidly shrinking fraction of Americans who have seen every Super Bowl. Either in person or on television.
Do the math. The first Super Bowl was played on January 15, 1967. Even if we cast a wide net and […]

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As someone who watched NFL games as a professional observer … well, I pretty much took a generation off.
The Rams and Raiders left Los Angeles after the 1994 season, and the 18 years I worked in the same media market as at least one NFL team has since been nearly equaled by the 17 seasons […]

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I have witnesses to this. Two days before the New Orleans Saints — and the quarterback who enjoyed the most productive season in NFL history — played in San Francisco, I was warning a couple of NFL fans here in Abu Dhabi about Candlestick Park.
I have spent many days in Candlestick, particularly in the 1990s […]

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It was about 5 a.m. at this end of the Arabian Peninsula when Tim Tebow hooked up with Demaryius Thomas on the 80-yard scoring pass on the first play of overtime, beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 29-23 in the playoffs.
By the time I got to the offices of The National later in the morning, something odd […]

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We interrupt this Paris travelogue to weigh in on Tim Tebow.
Yes, I may be the last person holding U.S. citizenship to be heard on the topic. In part, that’s because so many others reacted so quickly and so vociferously that I felt no need to join the shouting.
I like Tim Tebow. I admire Tim Tebow. […]

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Only by leaving the country can Yanks grasp what a thoroughly American holiday Thanksgiving is.
If the country an American expat has landed in has a Canadian community (like this one does), the locals will become particularly confused about this Thanksgiving business — because Canada has a Thanksgiving day of its own. But theirs is the […]

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I believe the 2011-12 NBA season should not happen. At all.
It’s not as if the NBA is missed, which is probably pretty damning.
Do you know anyone — anyone — who is talking about how the lack of NBA games is tearing them up? Or even vaguely disturbing them?
That, then, is a league that may as […]

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Al Davis has never been so popular. Within minutes of the news of his death today, obituaries were lauding him as a visionary (OK, he often was) a great football man (not lately) and a good and sensitive guy (not so much).
And the litigation-happy man who had brought gangsta NFL fandom to Los Angeles and […]

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It’s a nice story of redemption, and all that. From federal prison to starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, early Super Bowl favorites.
But should the Eagles have signed him for six years and $100 million?
I’m thinking “no.”

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