Category Archives: Sports

Book Review: The Hockey Saint

Posted on March 9, 2018 by nathanalbright

The Hockey Saint, by Howard Shapiro [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by Net Gallery/Animal Media Group.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] As someone born just outside of Pittsburgh, I have an interest in hockey even … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Hockey Karma

Posted on March 8, 2018 by nathanalbright

Hockey Karma, by Howard Shapiro [Note:  I received this book free of charge from Net Gallery/Animal Media Group.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] For those readers who come to this book from the author’s previous work in the … Continue reading →

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Olympic Athletes From Russia

Posted on February 13, 2018 by nathanalbright

If you are as fond of looking at the medal table for the Olympics as I am [1], you will notice a strange country appearing there:  Olympic Athletes From Russia.  You may ask yourself why Russia appears this way.  We … Continue reading →

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What Your Conspiracies Say About You

Posted on February 3, 2018 by nathanalbright

For whatever reason, conspiracies are popular, something I have seldom been able to understand [1].  Rather than talk about conspiracies as such, or the way in which they are often inferred even when they may not actually exist, or the … Continue reading →

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Rooting Interest

Posted on January 9, 2018 by nathanalbright

While eating dinner today I had the chance to watch the college playoff championship, which did not go as well as I would have hoped.  For a half, it looked like it was going to be a really good game, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Carry On

Posted on September 29, 2017 by nathanalbright

Carry On:  A Story Of Resilience, Redemption, And An Unlikely Family, by Lisa Fenn [Note:  This book was provided by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishing.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] This book is a companion volume to two ESPN movies … Continue reading →

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Cracking The Code

Posted on September 27, 2017 by nathanalbright

Like many people, I enjoy laughing at an lolcow from time to time.  Tonight, for example, I amused myself by watching a video about Ryan Leaf, one of the worst ever players drafted in the NFL.  In 1998, it was … Continue reading →

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Shut Up, You Talk Too Much

Posted on September 24, 2017 by nathanalbright

Over the past few months there has been an increasing trend for athletes to protest what they view as police brutality in various cities to protest during the singing of the National Anthem as some sort of political statement.  I … Continue reading →

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And The Hits Keep Coming

Posted on September 20, 2017 by nathanalbright

There is a saying that lightning never strikes the same place once, but that saying is even a bad one by the standard of bad urban legends.  Early in his political career, Abraham Lincoln made political hay of the fact … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Indentured

Posted on September 20, 2017 by nathanalbright

Indentured:  The Inside Story Of The Rebellion Against The NCAA, by Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss This book is written with an obvious intent to shock the reader into a horror at the exploitation of college athletes, mostly from minority … Continue reading →

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