Over the Rainbow
November 28, 2020 Rochester's own Don Potter sings the best version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. It's used at the Rochester Press and Radio Club's Day of Champions, the background to a collage of sports personalities who passed the year before. A time-honored tradition. As it was when Master of Ceremonies Jerry Flynn would always ...
The One That Got Away
October 31, 2020 The one that got away. You know. She was charming. Engaging. Smart. She had an 'it' quality. And a smile that stretched into next week.You thought it would last forever. Even now you don't know why it didn't. But it didn't and she's not coming back. And what's worse. She remains out ...
The Longest Shot
October 24, 2020 What is the longest shot sports outcome you can think of? There's the go-to Buster Douglas boxing upset over Mike Tyson. The New York Jets were 19-point underdogs in Super Bowl III to the Baltimore Colts. How about the Rochester Rhinos winning the US Open Cup by beating three MLS teams along ...
The COVID Games
October 17, 2020 On the subject of some of those changes forced on us by the pandemic. Things that might be nice to keep. I'm a baseball guy. There are three things from the Covid Games I really like. None of which stand a chance of being kept.I loved the shortened season. 60 games. Every game ...
Living Attendance
October 3, 2020 Things we never thought we'd see. The Preakness Stakes was Saturday. It's usually run in May. Same for the Kentucky Derby, which was held in September. The US Open tennis and golf tournaments took place in back to back weeks. The summer Olympic games are scheduled to take place in an odd ...
The Falcon Kickoff Rule
September 26, 2020 I let little things get to me. Like having to cut the label off the flavored coffee cream container in order to get it recycled. I am totally convinced that I will stab myself in the wrist with a steak knife doing that someday. Another is trying to make the on-side kick ...
Misery Loves Hope More
September 19, 2020 So how was your summer vacation? In the interests of misery loves company, I had elective surgery. A full knee replacement. And I learned that misery doesn't need company as much as it needs hope. Remember at the beginning of all of this there was so much skepticism over how sports would ...
Another Unwritten Rule
We have these unwritten rules in baseball. Unwritten because they aren't clearly defined. Don't slide too hard into my second baseman. Don't take too long rounding the bases. Don't bang on a trash can when you know what pitch is coming. Those are just some of them. So where does threatening my health fall? Where ...
The XFL III
August 8, 2020 Does anyone remember the Chicago Fire; the Philadelphia Bell or my personal all-time favorite; the Shreveport Steamer? Those were three of the erstwhile franchises in the World Football League which operated in 1974 and half of 1975. They played a 20-game schedule running from July through November. Old Miami Dolphins fans hate ...
Numbers that scare the NFL
August 1, 2020 These are the numbers that scare the hell out of the NFL today. 3-11-17. Those are the numbers of Miami Marlin baseball players who tested positive for Coronavirus over just two days. Going from 3. To 11. To 17. The team was shut down and the schedules of four other baseball teams ...
