Paying respects to Brodie Lee
Remembering the pro wrestler, and Rochester native...
A Less Perfect Union
December 27, 2020 A friend calls to ask what I think of the Flower City Union? I worked for a union in my days at Channel 10. Did some good for the American worker. So yeah, I'm for it. Turns out it isn't a union at all. It's not a credit union either. Nor a ...
Remembering Huber Boy 2
aka Jon Huber aka Brodie Lee fka Luke Harper
Apologies to Sockalexis
December 19, 2020 My regards to NBC's Erik Ortiz for filling in the details here.Louis Sockalexis was a baseball player for the Cleveland Spiders of the National League in the late 1890s. He had a spectacular but short, three-year career. He was also a Penobscot Indian. And as such is often credited with being the ...
A Hero in Disguise
December 12, 2020 Phil Hansen was a defensive end and one of the great Buffalo Bills - lost in that era when little went right. He proudly wore the Buffalo uniform for eleven years. My most vivid memory of Hansen is of him trudging around the track at St. John Fisher in training camp. Running ...
A Person of Interest…
Three years from now, will anyone remember Kendall Hinton? Credit: Bryan M. Bennett/Getty Images. Pictured: Kendall Hinton He was a state championship football player at a high school in North Carolina. As a junior he was responsible for over 60 touchdowns in an undefeated season. His coach said had he been 6 foot 1 instead of ...
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 ...
2020 NASCAR Preview: Week 36 – Phoenix
Winner* take all!
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 ...
