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Sports
(other) |
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Airport
congestion at Reagan National leads to a crash and a recollection |
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Belmont
Stakes favorite Big Brown explains why he finished last |
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Chanticleers
and poulet de Bresse |
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"City
of Champions" endures a three-week holiday slump |
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Common
nicknames reused for pro & amateur teams in multiple sports |
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Daytona
500: filling in what the telecast left out |
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Early-season
wins and losses do matter; also, women can play hoops |
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Fat
lady must sing before opera is over? Where'd that come from? |
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Formula
1 continues to be dominated by Lewis Hamilton |
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Formula
1 overtaking is difficult at Monaco |
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Foxes
in a box |
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Golf
ball hit too high is "bladed" or "topped" |
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Golf
swings by me rarely hit the ball squarely |
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Half
the time, you're a miserable failure  |
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Hazing
in high school sports |
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Hunting
is hating? |
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I
am who I am, said God. It is what it is, say we. |
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Indy
500 backstretch: everyone swerves away from the wall |
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Korean
scenes from colleagues at the 2018 Winter Olympics |
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Lacrosse
on a reservation 20 miles south? 'Twas in the paper |
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Le
Mans reminds me of my trip to Sebring and the blinding headlights |
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"Loco"
cans were for the Locomobile racecar, not Coca-Cola |
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Lookalikes:
Bob Brenly and Bill Cowher |
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Madison
Square Garden had six clocks on the balcony |
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Meadows
is now more a casino than a harness-racing track |
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Naming
rights: Sun Life Stadium |
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Nicklaus
in a televised 1960 golf tournament |
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No-hitter
or shutout in progress: Does mentioning it jinx it? |
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Olympian
Tommie Smith recalls 1968 gesture |
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Olympics
2008: how to discourage dissent |
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Overtime
could be avoided with pregame shootouts |
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Penn
State's colors were once pink and black |
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Petersen
Events Center gets studios and "Victory Heights" companion |
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Pi
and Michael Phelps |
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Playing
footsponge |
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Qualifying
for NASCAR races can be made telegenic |
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Racetrack
turns always numbered like Indy's |
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Rioting
fans after big games: they'll do anything if everybody's doing it |
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Road
rally term I invented: NORI |
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Rowing
coaches want neophytes; also, ancient sports art |
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"Sideways"?
NASCAR competitors sometimes get that way |
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Soccer
is not a communist sport; I rode with JP Dellacamera |
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Spelling
tips: Coonelly
Goligoski
Penguins |
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Sports
seasons in my youth were only three months long |
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Summer
Olympics should begin at the end of summer |
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Superstitious
fans and praying churchgoers imagine they'll influence events |
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State
of Origin Rugby League Football Tournament |
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Statues
to freeze great moments in sports |
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Sweep
not likely even if you're up two games to none |
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Tape
to block part of a NASCAR grille can be overdone |
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Three
teams compete on a single court pitch? |
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Tour
de France broadcast is merely a travelogue for me |
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Tour
de France fans crowd the course and cause crashes |
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Upsets?
I've televised a couple of the biggest |
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U.S.
Open cameraman |
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West
Virginia moves much farther west, leaving its hated rivals behind |
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Winter
sports that could be in the Olympics |