Don’t bother Tiger Woods, officer. He’s sleeping.

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=Tiger+Woods&iid=7029112″ src=”9/9/1/c/2009_Australian_Masters_8b90.jpg?adImageId=7920619&imageId=7029112″ width=”234″ height=”150″ /]Before the Tiger Woods story erupted this Thanksgiving weekend, I’d been ruminating on the differences between elite athletes and us mere men and women. Highly paid pro athletes like Woods in golf or Alex Rodriguez in baseball or LeBron James in basketball exist on a plane at which most of us mortals […]

Football Night in America – sacrilege

[picapp src=”b/7/8/5/Super_Bowl_XLIII_4dad.jpg?adImageId=7075166&imageId=3807985″ width=”234″ height=”175″ /] The show has been around on NBC for a few seasons, but only today as I awoke from a snooze brought on by 49ers, Raiders and Packers losses did I discover Football Night in America. It’s the show that airs before the Sunday night NFL game of the week, and […]

PicApp gets the cap wrog

WordPress, which I dearly love, recently introduced PicApp images for use on our blogs. I just signed up and in my first search – for “baseball” — was pleased to find photos of celebrities and athletes wearing baseball caps and golf caps. The first image to catch my eye was this one of singer Katy […]

Of “Seinfeld” and baseball caps

The TV rerun gods were in a generous mood last night, enabling me to catch a Seinfeld rerun of “The Letter,” the episode in which Elaine twice causes a ruckus at a Yankees’ game by wearing an Orioles cap while sitting in the owners’ box seats. (Sorry, I can’t figure out how to embed the […]

And the Britain’s Got Talent winner is… The Houston Astros?

Major League Baseball caps can show up in the most unexpected places, as the hit UK show “Britain’s Got Talent” has proved. The winner of this year’s competition was not Internet phenomenon Susan Boyle but an athletic dance troupe called Diversity. BGT has only crept into the American consciousness on a broad scale this year, […]