Buckeyes, Irish, and NFL History
After yet another winter’s snow, it’s time for some random thoughts while waiting for the weekend’s NFL Wild Card playoff games to kick off—
This...
Jetsons, Joe, Ja’Marr, and Blue Jays
Hard to believe that 2025 has arrived! It will take me a few weeks to not put 2024 on the few checks I still...
Another trip around the sun
With another Christmas season behind us and New Year’s Eve and Day festivities just ahead for most, let’s wrap up another year with a...
College Football, Pop-Tarts, and Mayonnaise
The next two weeks promise to be, as usual, the busiest of the calendar year for most folks around West Central Ohio. Family gatherings,...
Cars, Patriotism, and Skyline Chili
Thought we’d start today’s column with some news from the automotive market. Money Magazine reports that traditional cars account for only 19% of the...
Ducks, deer, squirrels, and bunnies
You can hear the wailing and moaning (with Southern accents of course) from down in Dixie as the College Football Playoffs won’t include a...
Poetry, Playoffs, and Maalox
With apologies to Ernest Thayer and “Casey at the Bat”—
“Oh somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere,...
It must be the last week of November!!
For all of you THE fans out there, the victory over Indiana was the first step in what is a hoped-for national championship run....
Football. basketball, and a visit to Notre Dame
How about a mixture of football and basketball at all levels with a dash of college volleyball thrown in to stimulate one’s senses in...
A sports potpourri and body art
Odds and ends in several different areas are the topics to be covered in this week’s award-winning column as daylight continues to shorten—less than...
