Rodney Rogers

He’s paralyzed from the shoulders down after an accident.  I remember watching him when he was at Wake Forest, where he was freshman of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference over Grant Hill, then player of the year two years later.  He was taken #9 by the Nuggets, then did this as a rookie, showing [...]

Real quick

You might have known that Charles Stone III, creator of the Whassup commercials as well as the tremendous spoof above, directed Black Sheep’s “The Choice is Yours.”  I didn’t.

Lavar Arrington’s career wasn’t that bad (three Pro Bowls) but it seems like he could have done so much more.  Off the [...]

The stories are the same

 
This week a Midwestern black man in his mid 40s pulled off a big move.  I’m talking about Joe Dumars, of course, trading Chauncey Billups for Allen Iverson.  It might not be a good move for this year but almost certainly it helps the Pistons over time.  And Dumars has a lengthy track record by [...]

President Barack Hussein Obama

Even if you didn’t know his face, his name would stand out.
Here’s how the electoral map looked the moment it was called on MSNBC: 

Poetic that Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” has become a theme song of sorts… precocious Stevie’s first major hit, “Fingertips (Pt. 2)” was in 1963, the year Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his ”I Have [...]

NFL round-up, Week 9

Some of your team-leading receivers in games this Sunday: Greg Camarillo, Peyton Hillis, Brent Celek.  I am not Mel Kiper.  I didn’t know about these guys.
Colts 18, Patriots 15: Not quite the clash of the titans this match-up has been for a handful of years.  Adam Vinatieri keeps getting his revenge and Wes Welker stays [...]

Cool cats

NFL round-up, Week 8

I’ve become a casual viewer in my old age but this might be fun:
Giants 21, Steelers 14:  Game of the day, lived up to the hype though neither team looked unbeatable.  Lots of hitting.  If the Steelers stay banged up, they could struggle the rest of the way.  And if they don’t protect Ben Roethlisberger [...]

Brandon McClelland and hate crime

 

Takes five weeks or so for the national news media to pick up the story of a man whose body was discovered torn apart by the side of a road.   The man was Brandon McClelland, 24, of Paris, Texas. 
That’s the same Paris where Shaquanda Cotton received a seven-year sentence for pushing a hall monitor in high [...]

We love statistics

Context is missing too often from straightforward stories.
Like here, where it’s pointed out that Barack Obama’s fund-raising in the first half of October showed a significant decline from the pace in September, when he set a record by pulling in $150 million.
So now he’s on pace for about $70 million in the month.  Which would [...]

Old man tempest

The more I see of John McCain’s campaign the more I think of an impetuous teenager, not quite fully formed in his thinking.  He’s learned enough to know when he’s doing wrong, but he’s so headstrong in pursuing his goals that he doesn’t care until his rep is damaged.  Then he’s repentant and sulky in the [...]