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SUPERB BOWL . . .

. . . and my introduction to the machinations of professional football was the Super Bowl played in February, 2008, between the New York Giants and one man, Tom Brady, leading the New… Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Mikes, The Results . . .

. . . I have one more, if you are lucky, two if unlucky, football stories, left to post. The dreary Black Eyed Peas have promised us that  “tonight is going to be a… Continue reading →

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Focus Rally America . . .

. . . and it is a Ford Focus, I think, bringing us the Super Bowl live from Dallas.  Lea Michele, from the hit show Glee, is singing America the Beautiful and from… Continue reading →

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State of the Union . . .

. . .  oh dear. From this week’s edition of The Economist http://www.economist.com/node/18010469 It’s not all that bad. Is it? Someone please tell me, say it isn’t so . . .

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People Who Live in Glass Houses . . .

. . . should not wander about naked looking for their underwear. Yes, we all do it but here in New York it can be a little more public and, as often as it… Continue reading →

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Date Night at the White House . . . .

. . .  and highly tipped as being Prom King and Queen are Sen John Thune (R) South Dakota and Sen Kirsten Gillebrand (D) New York.

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Stitches in Time . . .

. . . and on a quiet, cold winter’s evening, the needle is pulling my thread through a tapestry of memory lanes. Football dramas belong to yesterday, to be continued February 6th with… Continue reading →

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Pittsburgh Blues . . .

. . .  if you happen to be a Jets fan. In the week since the Jets saw off the New England Patriots in the play-offs for the AFC Championship New York City… Continue reading →

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Baby, it’s cold outside . . .

. . . but it is heating up in Chicago where the Bears are playing dirty against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship. Temperature here in NYC, and Chicago, is 21… Continue reading →

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Adventures with Grandpa Dick . . .

. . . he’s back!  But, did he ever really go away? Dick Cheney, the gift who keeps on giving courtesy of a battery-powered heart pump, broke the early morning light of  yesterday… Continue reading →

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Sunday Night . . .

. . . and the New York Jets are taking off.  New England Patriots are down 3 – 14 and second half is under way.  I would not have picked this one but… Continue reading →

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Winter forever . . .

. . . or so it is feeling at the moment.  Cold and wet with lashings of heavy winds, the weather comes down from the top of the moor in fits of moorland… Continue reading →

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Dream Nation America . . .

. . . is alive and well.  Up to a point. This is the night of Sunday Night Football.  The Playoffs. Somehow, Mark Sánchez and the New York Jets have seen off Peyton… Continue reading →

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Up in the air . . .

. . .  and all at sea, it’s no Sunday Night Football for me.  Not this week at least.  I have been busy trying to squeeze the latest from the facts and figures… Continue reading →

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Pat-Down, Smack-down, TSA . . .

. . .  and Happy New Year greetings from JFK from where soon I shall be leaving on a jet plane for London.  Somewhere in a time zone over the Atlantic the New… Continue reading →