From Air Force to Wyoming (which isn’t actually that far, but as far as it gets in the college football alphabet) institutions of higher learning and four-star recruits are naming starting quarterbacks. It has become a ritual. You just can’t have a starting quarterback. You have to name one.
Deryk Engelland’s position is defenseman. Rugged defenseman. Standing 6 feet 2 inches and weighing around 210 pounds, his style is checking guys into the boards, and removing them from Jonas Hiller’s goal crease, and generally protecting teammates who score a lot more goals than he does.
It was around 7:30 in the morning, and a Maloof brother of Las Vegas was either just waking up or just getting in when he read on TMZ that Mike Bossy’s 50 goals in 50 games keepsake hockey puck was being auctioned off by someone not named Mike Bossy.
When Justin Wilson’s brother, Stefan, also a racecar driver, posted a Twitter message Tuesday that said his big brother had donated his vital organs, it did not come as a surprise because that’s just the kind of guy Justin Wilson was.
A few years ago when I was waiting to catch a plane in Kansas City, my brother-in-law took me to the site of old Municipal Stadium, after which we had lunch at Arthur Bryant’s barbecue just down the street. Then it was on to the Negro Leagues Hall of Fame on East 18th Street.
A stench emanating from field level at Cashman Field wasn’t the smell of the 51s falling out of first place on the home stand that ended Saturday night. It was the smell of sewers backing up near both dugouts.
If the baseball season ended today, the Chicago Cubs would be firmly in the playoffs. And now comes news the Washington Generals have folded.
A few hours before the sun came up today, they officially closed the doors at the Las Vegas Club. That made me think of my old pal Jim, and what a great place the Las Vegas Club was for old sports pals to meet and have a beer, even if it started to smell like an old cigar there toward the end.
I think we all can agree there can be only one Dos Equis beer guy. But Matt Szczur, an outfielder for the Iowa and Chicago Cubs, is fairly interesting in his own right.
On the south side of Chicago on Sunday afternoon, Chris Sale of the White Sox matched a career high by striking out 15 Chicago Cubs. Sale did this by pitching seven innings during which he allowed only one hit.
