The legendary Bob Sheppard, the amazing longtime PA announcer at Yankee Stadium, has called it a career.
Bob Sheppard has no intentions of returning to his longtime job as the public-address announcer at Yankee Stadium, MLB.com reported yesterday.
Sheppard, 99, hasn’t worked a game since late in the 2007 season due [...]
All that's on the line, [...]
Have we all recovered from the trauma of this week’s Monday Night Football game? Good. Let’s take a minute and look at this Richard Justice column, whose basic thesis that Gary Kubiak and Rick Smith should be hearing the clock ticking is one with which I agree, but being [...]
Tuesday, Nov. 24th, Women's College BB: Baylor vs. Jacksonville State- Griner becomes seventh woman to dunk in a college game.
[...]The list of games gets shorter, so the importance of each is magnified ...
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Arlington Martin (8-4) vs. Euless Trinity (10-2)
noon Friday, Bedford's Pennington Field
Arlington (10-2) vs. Coppell (11-1)
1 p.m. Saturday, Birdville ISD Complex
I like that Trinity High basically gets a home game this deep in the playoffs. [...]
» BoGlobe: To get into the game, ID often required
This is a good read to get in a football frame of mind for this weekend. Good, that is, if you like some insight into the mechanics of how QBs read defenses ...
Against teams like the Jets and Ravens, whose [...]
This is always a special time. So while you are gathered around the turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie waiting to over eat then sit and watch the football game on your new flat screen tv, take a moment to give thanks. Give thanks if your family can afford health insurance [...]
To paraphrase something Joe Garagiola once said about baseball, politics is a funny game. It happens that I read, or looked at, Garagiola’s book, Baseball is a Funny Game, when I was eight years old and on my first ever trip to Austin, a trip that included [...]
DeSoto’s own Patrick Crayton’s third touchdown this year was one of the most important of the Dallas Cowboy season. The last second score saved the Boys from an embarrassing loss to one of the league’s worst teams.
It also was the only touchdown of a game so ugly not even its [...]
The Rick Perry campaign is airing its first radio ad of the campaign - a lively takeoff on the popular game show Jeopardy with questions about runaway federal spending and the answer always the same: Kay Bailey Hutchison. It's the first real attack of the campaign, but uses humor to' [...]
Dallas Cowboy DeMarcus Ware is one of three NFL stars appearing with President Barack Obama in a public service announcement that will air during Thanksgiving games. Ware was on the South Lawn of the White House last month tossing a ball around with Obama and a bunch of DC-area kids. [...]
A smattering of Thursday reports to feed into the weekend frenzy that is Texas high school playoffs.
» Two big games on the schedule for Dallas-area 5A competition, and with enough navigation skills and good fortune of the earlier game wrapping up early, you might be able to catch both [...]
The Texas Lottery Commission is fixing to bring Powerball to Texas.
The commission unanimously voted to publish rules for the game for public comment. If the panel gives final approval to the rules early next year, the first Powerball ticket could be sold in Texas on Jan. 31.
Texas already [...]
…against my better judgment. But still, this NY Times article about Elizabeth Lambert, a soccer player for the University of New Mexico, bothers me for several reasons. I ran across the YouTube video of Lambert’s extremely aggressive (that is, downright dirty) play in a game against Brigham [...]
Expanding out the D1 bracket to cover the full slate of remaining games. It seems that there's an odd mix of really easy games and a few really great games. But going through this game-by-game, it really does strike me as even truer now than I thought earlier in the [...]
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Ben Franklin and his essay, “The Morals of Chess,” by John McCrary
A history of Ben Franklin and chess, from Wholesale Chess
Posted in Ben Franklin, Chess, History Tagged: America's founding, Ben Franklin, Chess, games, Lady Howe [...] 
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