It didn’t disappoint, but like all good travel days, this one was improved make more memorable by the several wonderful people we accidentally became acquainted with along the way. I had researched suggestions for the best viewing spot. The Champs Elysees is obvious, since you can see the riders go both ways each circuit, but it is also the most crowded. Several sites suggested the Rue de Rivoli, adjacent to […]
Reports suggest that the Pac-10 Conference is on the cusp of inviting four Big 12 schools (Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State) to join the Pac-10. This follows the announcements yesterday that Nebraska was leaving the Big-12 to join the Big-10, and that Colorado was leaving the Big-12 to join the Pac-10. I can rationalize the Nebraska move into the Big Ten. Nebraska fits in geographically (it’s almost Midwestern) […]
After my last post, I remembered that we did meet once perfectly charming group of Brewers fans, three lovely and engaging young ladies in the booth next to us at the Perkins off of I-94 in Waukesha (I think), where we had stopped to engage in our last fried-food hurrah of the trip. They were pleasant and nice and interested in the fact that we’d come all the way to […]
After a great experience in Wrigley Field, in which we thoroughly enjoyed almost all our interactions with the Chicago Cub fans, my boys and I attended two Giants-Brewers games in Miller Park in Milwaukee. What I’m going to say is no doubt a gross generalization, based upon a too-small sample size, but as far as we could tell, most Brewers fans were crude, dumb, loud, obnoxious, unfriendly, and xenophobic […]
This has been a tough, tough year for Hawkeye fans. The football team, after starting out gangbusters, went 2-6 their last 8 games, then lost to Texas in the Alamo Bowl. The basketball team never really got on track, losing non-conference games at home to Northern Iowa and getting blown out on the road at Drake (bonus points for any native Californian who can tell me where Drake is located). […]
My youngest son Andrew’s CYO team plays in the championship of their division next weekend. In a first-ever for me, here’s some video highlights of his game this weekend. He’s number 5. Two jump shots, an almost-drawn charge, a steal and a knock-down, and an assist: A pretty good little player, but I’m biased.
Basketball season ended on Saturday, with Andrew’s fifth grade school team going down to a tough defeat in a hard-fought game at St. Francis in Sonoma. Poor kid got knocked down twice, with no foul ever called, but he played great defense and scored 2 points. He has 19 kids on his team, so no one gets a lot of playing time. Full size picture here.