Spring won’t end for a few weeks. This doesn’t stop the sun from scorching the terra firma of Memphis with heat reaching the high 90s. So as the sun shines bright, and the cloudless skies emanate azure across the horizon, most Memphians will spend the season in the same place they spent winter’s dreariest days: [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Northeast Ohio’
March 17, 2009
March Madness: A Parable
One springtime an assembly gathered in a contest to see who could best predict the outcomes of 64 basketball games. Each participant employed a different strategy. One player chose to select all the teams with the higher seed, betting that, in the end, games are won by the better team. Another one hastily selected [...]
February 27, 2009
SIGNal OF THE TIMES
I found out yesterday that Memphis’ AM Radio portfolio includes the above station. Apparently, the station’s 50,000 watt signal makes it audible in most markets east of the Mississippi. This connectivity links the Bluff City with the flagship station for the Indians, Browns, and Cavaliers–thereby welcoming the entire MidSouth into our corporate misery. Also, I [...]
February 21, 2009
Chalk it Up
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But according to the NFL, flattery has its costs. Steelers receiver Santonio Holmes has been fined $10,000 for his game winning “chalk throw” during the Super Bowl. The object of affection, LeBron James, doesn’t like the NFL’s call, protesting by saying, “That’s disgusting… I was watching. Us Ohio [...]
January 14, 2009
Night at the Forum
We headed downtown tonight to redeem my Christmas gift from Andrea, tickets for the Cavaliers-Grizzlies game. Usually our seats for games are higher than Keith Richards on Kilimanjaro. Tonight we sat close.
We were low on Cavs gear. We came in street clothes. Andrea asked how people would know that we were there to see the [...]
December 7, 2008
Romeo, Romeo, Marty
Word on the shores of the burning river is that the Cleveland Browns may be looking to replace beleaguered Big Cheese Romeo Crennel with former head coach, Marty Schottenheimer. Hands down, Schottenheimer is my favorite Brownies coach. A classic moment of the late 80’s NFL Films collection is Marty restraining one of his assistants who [...]
November 8, 2008
The Unsolved Mystery of Amy Mihaljevic
I just finished reading James Renner’s book Amy: My Search for Her Killer–Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic. Strange reading for a theology student. Let me explain.
When I was seven years old Greater Cleveland became preoccupied with the abduction of a ten year old named Amy Mihaljevic (that is pronounced [...]
October 14, 2008
Erie over Empire
Hello Monday Night. The Brownies flipped common sense on its head by stunning the visiting, undefeated, Super Bowl Champion New York Giants. Lot of excitement for a team that is still only 2-3. But it’s a start. The game came a little early for Halloween, but every game is a costume party in the Dawg [...]
July 22, 2008
Little Shop of Horrors
Yesterday I had lunch with Andrea, dad, and mom in Ohio City before swinging next door to a used book store. We discovered upon entry that the store was going out of business. The store was an absolute mess, essentially a pile of books, dust jackets, empty shelves, and cat litter. But being a sucker [...]
June 24, 2008
Handicapping THE BACHELORETTE
I’d like to take this moment to usher Time in My Mind into an all-time low. Since fellow Amherstonian and Marion L. Steele grad. Jesse Csincsak has made it into the final four, it only seems proper to rank the remaining candidates of The Bachelorette. The remaining beaux are:
Graham (Raleigh, North Carolina)Jason (Seattle, Washington)Jeremy [...]
