Last week, my wife and I spent time relearning the game of tennis at the Vic Braden Tennis College in St. George, Utah. I say relearning because the Vic Braden school is less about improving your current game than it is about changing your strokes and strategy to Vic’s way of thinking. That [...]

To celebrate my son’s graduation from high school, we decided to spend some time this summer touring baseball parks around the country.  While it would be great to align our schedule with that of the Red Sox, practically speaking, it doesn’t make sense.  Since teams generally play 3 games in each city they [...]

This month’s Tennis magazine has an article discussing the fact that tennis players feel their sport should “share” more of its profits (the article uses revenues and profits haphazardly) with its players.  Apparently, tennis players feel like the low man on the totem pole, only taking home 26% of the revenue (not profits, [...]

Watching the Super Bowl yesterday, it struck me that it’s been a while since a West Coast team has taken home the Lombardi Trophy.  While I was pretty sure I could remember the last 20 Super Bowl winners or so, I looked up the winners this decade just to check my facts . [...]

My son and I traveled to the Bronx this past weekend to say goodbye to the “House that Ruth Built,” watch the Yankees get their asses kicked by division-leading Tampa Bay and check out Derek Jeter and A-Rod’s new playground.

Before the game, we walked around the new stadium.  I shot a bunch [...]

Maria Sharapova is an immensely talented tennis player who, at 21 years of age, has 19 career titles, has been ranked as a top-ten player since Wimbledon 2004 and, in 2006, was the highest paid female athlete in the world.  Today, she was dismantled 6-2, 6-4 at Wimbledon in the third round by [...]