Update-February still makes us shiver. As the shortest month of the year rolls along we dug deep to find a savory serving of ten nuggets for our insatiable readers. We need to grab a bit from here and some from there to do so. The oven is on. In men’s NCAA basketball the new AP …
The NBA fashion show and All Star weekend has come and gone. Team LeBron squeaked by Team Giannis in a defensive thriller 178-164. In defense (none played) of the NBA the weekend is really more about style than substance anyway. The atmosphere surrounding one of these weekends is dress up, party, three-point contest, dress up, …
Friends Stocks continue to push higher despite a lukewarm earnings season, mixed economic data and the political theater that we see on a daily basis. Stress on those who sold in the 4th quarter of 2018 is starting to build. Have they come back in, and if not will they potentially provide fuel for a further advance as the fear […]
You can almost smell the infield dirt. It’s one of many signs of spring. it’s time to tee (up) your weekend with this great 57 second video from our Twitter friends. t.co/MwzpVrdTM1
Opinions on the quality of individual original content programming on ESPN vary. It ranges from excellent to steaming hot, mid summer Manhattan, New York, New York garbage. Yep, that’s quite the range. Two that we feel are on the excellent side are Outside the Lines and 30 for 30. So, the other night when James …
Friends The stock market is showing some impressive resilience. The bears delivered a haymaker this morning in the form of a miserable retails sales number, which initially did send stocks lower (more than 250 Dow points), but those losses were erased by midday. As the afternoon wore on and headlines hit that the President was going to sign the spending […]
If Lefty and Shorty were still with us early this morning might have unfolded like this. Lefty and Shorty sat quietly in the quite cool but early spring air. It was only 5:30 AM, and cars were nowhere to be found. Lefty- Why do we open up so early? Shorty- So that we can discuss what …
Al Davis, the unconventional owner and GM of the Oakland Raiders from its first days in the Sixties, until his last days in the New Millenium, coined the phrase “Just Win, Baby!” And his Raiders won and won. Two Super Bowl wins and two more appearances with several coaches and ever-changing personnel in an ever-changing …
Friends As old Monty Hall used to say “let’s make a deal”. A nice rally in stocks today was attributed to reports that a deal on the budget seems to have been reached (but not yet blessed by the President), and that there appears to be progress on a deal with China(of course, those tea leaves are next to […]
