Swamped with a book deadline, I won’t be writing much today or for the rest of the week. I’ll try to send something each day. My friend Carl McGown came through bigtime, sending this gem of a link on how well the NFL combine can predict how much success a college player will have in [...]
Sacha Baron Cohen did more than pull the prank of the night at last night’s Oscars.
By dumping the supposed ashes of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il all over Ryan Seacrest, Cohen gave us all a peek into where greatness comes from — outside the comfort zone.
“The skills and actions you need to be the (performer) [...]
Few thought he could do it. All he needed was a chance. When he finally got one, the whole world noticed.
Are we talking about Jeremy Lin? No, we’re referring to Al Pacino, whose portrayal of Michael Corleone helped make “The Godfather” a smash hit 40 years ago.
Pacino had to work hard to make believers of [...]
There’s no such thing as an overnight sensation. By the time a star has emerged before the public, he has put in thousands of hours of work behind the scenes.
It was true in the case of the Beatles, who worked years in a night club in Germany. They honed their craft and by the time [...]
Sometimes a rule is more than a rule.
The Boston Red Sox have banned beer in their clubhouse this year, and the edict reminds them that they have only one job: to win games.
That’s something they neglected to do at the end of last year, when the team went missed the playoffs in what will forever [...]
Davey Johnson is at it again.
Johnson, who told the 1986 New York Mets to go out and dominate the National League, is trying to put a manager’s imprint on this year’s Washington Nationals.
He told Florida Today columnist John Torres he’s so impressed with his team that it has a chance to be better than those [...]
Fifty years later, we have learned how dangerous John Glenn’s space flight really was.
One expert says there was a one in six chance that Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, would die in the attempt. Glenn made it, but not before enduring a tense re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
“There were flaming chunks of the [...]
If Rogers Hornsby were alive today, he would be celebrating the start of spring training.
Hornsby, a Hall of Famer and owner of the second-highest batting average in big-league history behind Ty Cobb, would be right there in Florida and Arizona, even though, technically, only pitchers and catchers must be there this early.
At this time of [...]
Centuries before the hit-and-run, Aristotle said, “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Then came baseball, and then came Gary Carter.
“Nobody loved the game of baseball more than Gary Carter,” New York Mets Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver said. “He wore his heart on his sleeve every inning he played.”
Carter died yesterday [...]
In these days of Jeremy Lin, it’s not a good idea for anyone to be selfish, or to be seen as so.
Carmelo Anthony, who will be on the court with Lin and the New York Knicks when he returns from a groin injury, is answering questions over whether he will share the ball.
And Alex Ovechkin [...]