A gripping story of the Detroit Tigers and a 1930s wave of terror

I am forever on the hunt for baseball books, and by chance I discovered through an electronic library “Terror in the City of Champions.” The book, published in 2016, chronicles the exploits of the Detroit Tigers and other Motor City sports teams in the 1930s against a backdrop of violent crime perpetrated by a ruthless […]

Super Bowl omen: A bald eagle visits

Happy Super Bowl, everyone. I’m rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles, and we just had what I consider a very good omen for the the team. As my wife and I were eating lunch, a bald eagle landed on the golf course that adjoins our lot. The eagle flew off, then came back to the course […]

Go Birds! The Super Bowl, the Eagles and the eagles

As the Philadelphia Eagles head to another Super Bowl, The Associated Press took that as a cue to write more broadly about how eagles — Philadelphia and bald — are “having a moment.” The football team’s good fortune is widely l known, and there’s also been a lot of good news lately about our national […]

another Ohio STATE-Notre Dame matchup

As a kid, I watched a lot of Ohio State football games, really getting into the Buckeyes when Rex Kern led them through an undefeated season in 1968. By that time, I’d learned the basics about college football conferences, at a time when the Big 10 had 10 teams (AS GOD INTENDED!). Growing up in […]

The Eagles prevail in the snow

Today’s Rams-Eagles game at snowy Lincoln Financial Field was a classic, and I took it in from the warmth of my living room 35 miles away. The game brought back sort-of fond memories of the one game I saw in person at the Linc: the Army-Navy game a few years ago. We were in the […]

Turkey Bowl XXX in Princeton

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We celebrated the traditional way in Princeton, New Jersey, by playing the 30th annual Princeton Gentlemen’s Society Turkey Bowl football game. Thanks to gimpy knees, I was a non-combatant. I did prowl the sidelines taking photos. My main photo outings are shooting birds and other wildlife, but I also enjoy sports photography […]

A visit to the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Driving to Cleveland for a high schoo reunion this weekend, I had time to stop in Canton and visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Even though I grew up about an hour away and had been in Canton a number of times, I’d never walked through the doors of this shrine to football in […]

Go birds! My Philadelphia Eagles cap always gets a reaction

Since moving into the Philadelphia area, I’ve bought and often wear Eagles-branded clothes. I have a Super Bowl LII T-shirt, an Eagles windbreaker and a cap, which I wear most often. Invariably, whether I’m out shopping, eating at a fast-food joint or even walking in the woods, somebody spots the cap and says, “Go birds!” […]

Turkey Bowl XXVIII on a beautiful Thanksgiving Day

Forget the Lions and the Cowboys. We have plenty of football excitement of our own in Princeton, New Jersey, on Thanksgiving. Today we held the 28th Turkey Bowl pickup touch football game. The curiously named Princeton Gentlemen’s Club holds the annual event, which brings players of all ages and their families to the big field […]

princeton-Harvard football: a classic matchup

Princeton and Harvard have faced off in football since 1877, and I got to watch the 115th meeting Saturday at Princeton Stadium. The Tigers beat the Crimson 21-14 after scoring what turned out to be the winning touchdown with about a minute and a half left in the game. One hundred years ago, a good […]