Redemption
As I mentioned on Opening Day, I’ve been all psyched to play softball this season. I joined a City Sports Connection softball team this Spring, and I’d been both looking forward to and anxious about playing. I’ve been anxious because I haven’t played baseball or softball since high school. So last Monday was my first…
Read MoreVikings 2005 NFL Draft Preview
I can’t remember being this obsessed about the NFL draft. My obsession has little to do with the fact that my team, the Vikings, have two first-round picks, 7th and 18th overall. It has everything to do with the fact that we traded the best recevier in the league and a future Hall of Famer…
Read MoreFlunk Day
Today is Flunk Day. Otherwise known as Senior Skip Day. This is the day that we irresponsible people leave work early and enjoy the first nice day of Spring. And you know what the opposite of responsibility is, don’t you? It’s called Fun. And that’s what we have: Fun. Flunk Day has it’s origins for…
Read MoreMinnesota Twins Baseball
I played catch with The Veteran yesterday in preperation of playing my first season of softball this summer, so I’m all psyched about MLB opening day. Hope springs eternal every March and April as baseball fans assess their team’s chances for winning their division and advancing in October and this year is no different for…
Read MoreIs The Mall Of America Heated?
I noticed today while doing keyword research that during the past 60 days, 5 people have used the search engines to answer the question "is the Mall of America heated"? I immediately assumed, of course, that that was a silly question. Located in Bloomington, Minnesota, how could the Mall of America not be heated. But…
Read MoreMike Tice – The Scalper
So Vikings coach Mike Tice has finally admitted that he scalped his Super Bowl tickets. That’s a direct contradiction to what he was saying just a few days ago when he claimed that though he routinely scalped tickets as an assistant coach, he never scalped tickets after he became head coach. While the practice, though…
Read MoreMadden 2006
These are some things I hope Electronic Arts includes in the next iteration of Madden football. FIRST PERSON MODE: I would love for Madden to have a first-person mode like ESPN Football has. It is the single biggest difference between the two games and if that’s a feature that matters to me as a prospective…
Read MoreVikings Killer Instinct
Patrick Reusse‘s column today talks about a Vikings fan named Albert Belle and how he’s skeptical about the Vikings ability to win the big game. And why shouldn’t he be? What evidence is there that the Purple have what it takes to win in the clutch? Well, you’ve got to go back a ways. Like,…
Read MoreJustice For Sale
The Los Angelese Times published a story today proving that, contrary to popular belief, justice is not just not blind, but that it’s got 20/20 vision when checking out the balance on it’s own personal checkbook. Today Justice is officially for sale–and at the nation’s highest court, no less. We discover this because under a…
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