Sports Saturday What a world series it was for San Francisco Giants pitcher Martin Bumgartner! On Sunday he threw 117 pitches for nine shutout innings to win game five and then on Wednesday he returned to throw another 68 pitches for five shutout innings to preserve a 3-2 lead in the deciding game seven. And […]
Peyton Manning is like Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin, who uses his keen mind to triumph over devious opponents.
The way the Kansas City Royals upended conventional wisdom in making it to the World Series is not unlike the chaos caused by Ariel in “The Tempest” to restore another royal to power.
Lack of respect can lead to fury and destruction. As it was with Medea, so it was last week with Tom Brady.
Howard Nemerov’s 1975 ambivalence about televised football anticipates our own mixed feelings today.
The Seattle Seahawks look prepared, once again, to unleash havoc on the other teams in the NFL–like the hawk in a Robert Cording poem.
My love of the NFL runs me up against some real moral quandaries. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte would understand.
