Daniel Murphy of the New York Mets is offering baseball fans a glimpse of a player performing in “the Zone.”
No matter what their business, the executives on “Undercover Boss” are looking for great attitudes.
U.S. Open golfers are already complaining about the Chambers Bay course. Umm, should it be easy?
Lottery Fever has struck the New York metropolitan area, with a jackpot of $252 million at stake on Tuesday. Millions of people will buy tickets, even though the odds are long and there is no way for them to influence the outcome. That’s the strange fact about lotteries and rooting for sports teams. People spend […]
Willie Mays ranks as one of the greatest players in big-league history. Yet his career ended almost before it began. Here, in an interview with the Academy of Achievement, he recalls the disastrous early days, when he was only 20 years old, far from home, and filled with doubt. “(When) I came to the majors, […]
Today marks an astonishing anniversary in baseball history. On this date in 1951, the New York Giants lost a game, and fell 13 games behind the Brooklyn Dodgers with only seven weeks to go in the season. In baseball, being 13 games behind with only seven weeks to play usually means only one thing: Wait til […]
Like the rest of us, Pat Summitt, legendary coach of the Tennessee women’s basketball team, finds lessons everywhere. She recently ran into one in her own life. As she mentions in this video clip, Summitt came home one day to find her son had been cut from his basketball team. He was in tears. Summitt’s […]
You never know where your career will take you. For a young voice actor named Mel Blanc, the road led to a pig farm. After months of trying, he had been offered an opportunity at the Warner Brothers studio, and Blanc wanted to do make sure he didn’t fumble it. It seems the studio was […]
Last night comedian Don Rickles was a guest on Craig Ferguson’s talk show. Rickles is a legend who gained fame through his good-natured insults. Sure enough, the minute he got on the stage, he jabbed everyone in sight: the host, the audience, everyone. Pretty soon everyone in the building was in stitches. Rickles’ comedy is […]
Hollywood’s version of “True Grit” came out in 1969 and starred John Wayne. You can remake this movie today, put yourself in the starring role, and have it run in your home every day. A recent article in the Boston Globe takes a look at success and concludes that it comes from something it calls […]