During this Winter’s T Woods escapade, you might have heard the old guy, Tom Watson, bemoaning the lack of respect for the game of golf these days. But what about the lack of swagger in golf these days? Those guys are BO-ring.
Check out this photo of Greg Norman from 1976. Bowl-cut and all, he looks like [...]
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
No, not Shaun White. Sadly, the Olympics are almost over. I’m talking about snow, baby. Once again, my predictions for an especially snowy winter are proving true. The western corridor of New England and parts of our fair state are going to get bombed on in the next 48 hours. Easily 12+ inches in many [...]
Friday, February 19, 2010
I’ve been on a new freelance gig lately and have not had the free time, to which I’m accustomed, to populate this blog with necessary news nuggets. Apologies to my readers. Oh, I was also skiing for 10 or so days and didn’t spend much time at a computer. I did slay icy conditions from Colorado [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Hey errrybody, the Winter X Games start this Thursday night and I implore you to watch some of it. Set your DVRs to record all of it, then just pick out the parts that look stoke-able and watch those. This will let you skip over stuff like the snowmobile races. BO-ring.
The mean age for [...]
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
I read a funny story this morning about Breckenridge, Colorado passing local legislation that amounts to a symbolic legalization of marijuana. See, marijuana is still illegal in the state of Colorado and the cops in Breckenridge have to enforce state laws over feckless local ordinances. Apparently, Breckendridge’s permanent residents and the town board decided they’d [...]
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
60 Minutes recently ran a great piece on “The Birdmen”—the guys who go careening down sheer mountain faces wearing tricked-out wing suits like the one pictured below. For someone like me, who’s pretty damned scared of heights, just watching is completely harrowing.
There are people all over the world using these suits, but one of the [...]
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Every year, right about now, I get to the point where I’ve got one thing on my mind. Skiing. AKA shredding the gnar; aka slaying pow—if I may foist a few ludicrous colloquialisms from the free-ski scene on to you. By no coincidence, this is also the time of the year when ski film makers [...]
At this year’s Tour de France, Nike has rolled out Chalkbot, one of the coolest, most brilliant things I have ever seen. The coolest part isn’t the Chalkbot machine itself, a semi-automated truck that sprays chalk messages on the street (or Tour de France course as it were). What’s so cool is how the Chalkbot [...]
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I wanted to write something about what I saw transpire in the men’s Wimbledon final yesterday but I’ve been having a tough time figuring out what to say. Posting a picture of Andy Roddick’s visage as he sat absorbing his loss after the 30th game of the 5th set (yes, 30th game; there are no [...]
When I was still living in Washington, DC I worked with a lot of guys from Maryland who grew up going to the Preakness. They were always telling me how crazy raceday was and that people literally were permitted to bring in garbage cans filled with beer. Garbage cans filled with beer is only going [...]
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