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Opinion & Analysis

  • Sports Commentary: Bedford's Bowl

     

    The challenge to a community newspaper is to somehow make national issues resonate with the local populace.

    That bit of logic earned no traction with the big boss when I tried to make the case for a Bedford Bulletin presence at the upcoming Super Bowl.

    "It would cost my entire paycheck just for air fare, hotel, meals and game tickets," he thundered.  "And it would cost your entire paycheck to buy a commemorative game program."

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  • Sports commentary: Super duper

     

    Well, we've got our Super Bowl teams.  To the surprise of nobody (except those that bet on other teams), the Seahawks and Patriots will face off ten days hence.

    In the spirit of the big game, I'd like to dedicate this column to aspects surrounding it.  Hopefully, there are some points here that you may not have considered previously.

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  • Sports Commentary: Dubuque rebuke

     

    Joining the likes of Scrooge, the Grinch and Mister Potter as  cold-climate curmudgeons is the city of Dubuque, Iowa.

    Specifically, the wintery wretch here is the city council of Dubuque.  For that is the entity which recently banned sledding in the city's parks.

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  • Sports commentary: Winging it

     

    There are few areas in which I'm a snobby stickler.  In fact there are only three.

    Frist, I take grate pride in my speling.

    Second, I make it my business to never split an infinitive:  To grievously make such an error in grammar is a no-no. 

    Third, I'm a martinet when it comes to chicken wings.

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  • Sports commentary: New Year hopes

     

    Over the next couple of days, you'll hear people wish you a Happy New Year.

    The sentiment is a good one, even if the well-wisher has no idea what a happy new year might look like to you.

    If given the opportunity to craft a happy new year, as well as a happy year, this is how it would look through my sporting eyes.

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  • Sports commentary: Holiday hoops

     

    The NBA:  Scrooge or Grinch?

    Or something else?

    The National Basketball Association has five games scheduled for Christmas Day.  The slate runs end-to-end from noon until the wee hours.  Two games will be carried by ABC, two by TNT and one by ESPN.

    I've written before about how wrong it is of the NBA to besmirch Christmas Day by holding and broadcasting these games on that day.

    The purpose of this column is to refute that judgment.

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  • Sports commentary: This is the year!

     

    "This is the year!" I stated, both inaccurately and a bit too loudly.

    "The year for what?" asked the wife.

    "The year my Cubs win it all," I bellowed.

    The inaccuracy, as my beloved pointed out, is that 2014 has already passed relative to the baseball season.  As things turned out, 2014 was the Giants' year.

    But, 2015 is certainly going to be the year all of this talk of goats and curses and 1908 and Bartmans comes to an end.

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  • Nailing it

     

    As this is the season of giving, I'm more than happy to give something to you, valued reader.

    Oh, it's nothing that comes wrapped in shiny paper with a bow affixed to its top.

    But it is, nonetheless, quite valuable.  At least I believe it is.  It is the gift of unsolicited advice.

    To the point, it is unsolicited advice on what to add to your Christmas shopping list.

    Flip-flops.

    Yes.  If you happen to have an athlete on your shopping list, I urge you to buy him or her a pair of flip-flops.

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  • Sports Commentary: Army-Navy Redux

     

    Although it doesn't take place until ten days from now, it's not too early to write my favorite column of the year:  The one directed at the Army-Navy game.

    Folks in these parts point to UVa-Virginia Tech as the big rivalry game.  And rightly so.  But, since I attended neither school, I don't have a dog in that fight.  That is, I can make lighthearted fun of neither of those schools.

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  • Sports commentary: T-Giving thoughts

     

    Ah, the big day is nearly here.

    Thanksgiving is truly one of the great holidays.  It is a  day to load up on great food and then waddle your Tryptophan-laden self to the couch to catch some football.

    Yeah, turkey and football go with Thanksgiving like candy canes and creches go with Christmas.

    Or do they?

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