08.13.2016 Sports Sports Desk: True confessions of an Olympicphile Friday, Aug. 5, was a big day. I had it marked down on my calendar for months, as if I might forget. LOL. No chance of that happening. How...
08.02.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Summering with Hamptons League isn’t bad It is true that first impressions can be lasting impressions. Not always, but in this case, it certainly is the case. My first impression of the quality of college...
04.11.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Bundle up, spring is here in full force Ah, springtime. There’s nothing quite like it, is there? Spring must have a good public-relations person.
03.02.2016 Sports Sports Desk: For these gladiators, toughness is part of the game They are the modern high school version of gladiators. Wrestlers are tough. They have to be, competing in the toughest of high school sports.
02.27.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Here’s something neat — notes on note-taking What I used to find somewhat embarrassing, I now find amusing. It’s not uncommon when I will be at a sporting event, scribbling something down into my reporter’s notebook,...
08.29.2015 Sports Sports Desk: Video is another creative form of sports storytelling “Let’s go to the videotape!” Back when I was a kid in the 1970s, that was the trademark phrase Warner Wolf used when he was the sportscaster for WABC-TV,...
08.12.2015 Sports Sports Desk: Goodbye summer. We hardly knew ye Being an old-fashioned sort, I still have and use one of those old-fashioned company-issued calendars that you pushpin onto a bulletin board.
07.06.2015 Sports Let’s hear it for the American women, World Cup champions SPORTS DESK/Bob Liepa A surge of patriotic fervor swept through me on Sunday. Sure, it was the day after the Fourth of July holiday, but that wasn’t the reason...