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Driving down I-81 on Friday, I had my car decorated with all the usual VT football magnets, the product of an unplanned 45-minute break on I-64 West earlier in the afternoon. It was a nice afternoon, traffic slightly heavier than usual with cars full of happy families heading to graduation like us.

A fluorescent orange 15-passenger van from a North Carolina-based construction contractor passed us on the left. Nothing too remarkable about that but the color. But then it slowed down, drifted back to us, and the front-seat passenger leaned up against his window, waving his WVU hat, laughing and yelling something presumably stupid.

We laughed this off and drifted back. Then he braked again. Same act, same result… then H wished aloud for a whiteboard. Quickly, I pulled a sheet of paper and pen out of the side pocket. We only had a minute or so to get this right.

We sped up a little, and he braked to come back a third time. This time, pressed against my side window were two simple words:

GO PITT

Result: two middle fingers, five miles of uninterrupted laughter in our car and the best story of the weekend.

11 May 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: life

Nats Park thoughts


The main view

I made it up to Nationals Park for the first time a couple weeks ago, after seeing close to 50 games total at RFK over the past three seasons. (Needless to say, the yearly average is going down given my new home — both its location and the associated mortgage. But such is life.)

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27 April 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: baseball



Review: The Sports Book


I wanted to like THE SPORTS BOOK ($35.00, DK Publishing, $23.10 at Amazon). Really, I did. The advance release I received advertised an encyclopedia of the rules and tactics of virtually every common athletic competition the world over. Ever been struck one night with an intense desire to figure out, “Just what the heck is korfball”? Tuned across Australian rules football on a public TV digital subchannel and been strangely entranced, yet completely confused as to the actual goal of the event? Well, this should be the book to solve all those problems.

Plus, it’s covered in Astroturf. No, really.

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7 April 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: books
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