Tennis
Lately I’ve been playing tennis on a semi-regular basis. I hadn’t really played in years, but it’s coming back to me. My roots in tennis lay in lessons I took as a little kid (not posh country club lessons—these were normal, summer-camp lessons) and playing with my dad as a kid. I remember thinking that [...]
My Brilliant Ideas: Putting Lenses
I don’t condone cheating at anything, including sports. The whole steroids thing is kind of disgusting to me…I mean, we want to see athletes do incredible things on the field, but we want to see them do those things naturally. This people are blessed with near-supernatural strength, speed, and dexterity—is that amazing enough? The idea [...]
The Truth About the Olympics
I haven’t written anything about the Olympics so far. Not that you’re for lack of content on the web about the worldwide games. Michael Phelps’ face is plastered on every major website, and there are constant updates and speculations about the events going on. I try not to get into the Olympics primarily because it’s [...]
A Fan of Cardinals Fans
I grew up in Chesterfield, Virginia, which is right next to the former Confederate capital, Richmond. We don’t have any professional sports teams in Richmond, just a few college teams and a minor-league baseball team, the Richmond Braves. My memories of going to Braves games consist mainly of sitting on cold, wet, aluminum bleachers, dividing [...]
