Sports Blog

The last time I saw Buck O'Neil was in Minnesota. My friend Ryan and I were visiting our buddy Thor, and we decided to go to a Twins game. Unbeknownst to us, Buck was there that day to throw out the first pitch.

I have gone two straight weeks without writing about sports in the Sweet Linkage. That just cannot continue!

Baseball is usually a boring game. They play 162 games in a Major League Baseball season, and many of those games lack drama and excitement and make me sleepy. The MLB marketing people should make that their slogan: “Major League Baseball – Sometimes it makes you sleepy!”

Before the 2009-10 NBA season, I decided I was going to pick one NBA team and that team would be my team. Growing up in Kansas City – post the KC Kings’ era – I never really had a rooting interest in the NBA...