Happy June everyone! As I was scanning the headlines this morning I realized that there were a couple of things that I wanted to comment on but none of them were worthy of an entire column, so, here are a few brief thoughts for you this Monday morning. I get asked a lot, why do I have such an affinity for women's sports versus men's. Well, a story today about something that happened at the French Open is one example. Two men had a nearly five hour match yesterday and afterwar

Like many of you, I suspect, I am inundated with nonsensical emails and posts to my email and Facebook page. One such post (pictured above) was sent to me the other day by someone, or some group, I already forgot. In fact, at the time I wasn't even sure what the context was for this list but based on the names I am going to assume they were rating who they think was the best female singers of all time. (And before you start yelling at me, just because the headline says that,

Let me be clear right from the start here. I am not dying any time soon so please don't get too excited just yet. It has been a little longer than two months since I went in for routine surgery to insert a couple of stents and then things went sideways fast. Since then my recovery has been up and down, mostly down. Without getting into the boring details I will just say that the doctors keep telling me that I'm doing great but I know that I'm not. I may not be good at many th

Yesterday I spoke with a long time friend of mine and we spent most of the twenty minutes bringing each other up to date on our various medical issues. Afterwards I found myself depressed, another medical issue to add to my list, over the fact that two pretty athletic men in our childhood have turned into a medical mess in our seventies. As kids we spent most of our non school lives outside playing. We either played pick up baseball and hockey and basketball or we played kick