If you know any athletes who play both for their high school and for a club, you know that they must balance their participation. Not at Immaculate Heart Academy in Northern New Jersey. There, and perhaps at other schools around the country, the rule is hard and fast: You cannot miss a school event to […]
Elvis Presley would have been 75 years old today. His life contains lessons for everyone. For instance, when he was 11 years old, he wanted a bicycle. But his family couldn’t afford one. His mom talked him into accepting a guitar instead. Within a couple of years, he was singing and playing the guitar at […]
In hiring Mike Shanahan as their new head coach, the Washington Redskins believe they have the right man. Trouble, is, two years ago they thought they had the right man, too. But now they have fired Jim Zorn after only two seasons, and Shanahan becomes the seventh head coach under owner Dan Snyder, who bought […]
W. Somerset Maugham said, “It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.” Last night there was a special about high school bands on television. One of the band directors remarked that each season involved at least two dynamics: the ninth-graders learning the […]
With all the talk of NFL teams resting their stars to keep them from injury entering the playoffs, critics have raised the issue of integrity. What happened in the NFL the last two weeks is nothing compared to a controversy during the 1981 baseball season. Two big-league managers — Tony LaRussa and Whitey Herzog — […]
’Twas the season for apologies. First, New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin and Giants quarterback Eli Manning apologized to fans for the team’s brutal performance against the Atlanta Falcons. Then yesterday, University of Tennessee men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl issued an apology after four of his players were arrested in a traffic stop and […]