I moved to the Dallas metro area a little more than four years ago. Driving past the behemoth high school football stadiums and listening to horror stories of seven-year-olds suffering broken bones during practice reminds me just how important football is to sports fans in this state. With the undefeated TCU Horned Frogs hailing from… (read more)
I’m a huge fan of a young woman I’ve never met, and never heard of until Thursday night. Not because she’s a celebrity; not because she’s beautiful (which she definitely is); not because she’s ranked sixth in the world in her sport; not because she’s (almost) famous. I like Caroline Wozniacki, 19, because she made… (read more)
Qatar has replaced child camel jockeys, sometimes no older than four years, with robots. In what began as an effort to appease human rights groups, in fact, the United Arab Emirates also plans to deploy the mechanical riders in place of what advocates consider slaves. At least one former child jockey, now reduced to the… (read more)
[photopress:DSC_6854_sm_blog.JPG,full,pp_image] (click to enlarge) Oh, yeah, three of our boys are in their third season playing on the same team together. — mother of a boy on the most recent team to hand Benjamin’s team their heads on a platter The quality of mercy is not strain’d. — Shakespeare
[photopress:DSC_2526_sm_blog.JPG,full,centered] (click to enlarge) “Daddy, will I get fruit foot again?” “You mean Fruit by the Foot? I don’t know, maybe.” Despite his query regarding the post-game snack, Benjamin’s interest in attacking the ball has gone up in direct proportion to the number of games he has played. Well, I suppose not even going out… (read more)