On a night when San Francisco Giants pitcher Yusemeiro Petit went the distance on just 89 pitches , the kid from my part of New York went fi...

It's the sports story of the hour, and it has nothing to do with playing a game.  It has everything to do with a 3 minute clip of sur...

freedom fighter image borrowed from http://kurdistan.blogsport.de Dead last in NFL power rankings , but first in heart, courage and com...

(about that 40 acres and a mule proposal) While reading the historical fiction novel " Cloudsplitter " by Russell Banks, I ...

Thursday Night begins the 2014 National Football League season.  From now until Super Bowl Sunday everything counts.  Every punt, pass an...

Keep Your Head Up!

my Oakland Raiders.  The team made me a proud silver & black fan last night as they attacked the super bowl champion Seattle Seahawks in...

I've been watching and blogging about the Little League World Series competition for years.  Its just one of those events that gets t...

Rigged Stock Market The unmasking of high-frequency computerized stock trading and the method by which a few are robbing the many on wall...

I can only assume after seeing the performance of all three Raiders quarterbacks last night, that Matt McGloin just hasn't shown in s...

Raider Nation in Full Effect The two teams Tune-up their gameplans with two days of scrimmages in Oxnard, Ca. in front of footba...

Robin Williams, actor/comedian, has left us. He was so much more than just another celebrity. In San Francisco, he will be remembered as o...

Obediance The worse crimes in history would not have been possible without mass obedience and conformity to the demands of power. Subo...

Without question I can honestly say that #1 ranked tennis champion Serena Williams is my athletic prototype of a perfect woman.  Her recen...

What's Happenin Family I See Ya!

Finally, with some off-season training, they're learning to let the players play and keep themselves from determining outcomes of game...