Now that the money Blatter received has been quietly moved to his Swiss bank (pardon my cynicism) here is today's sport headline: Blatter labels 2022 World Cup award a ‘mistake’
"Fifa president Sepp Blatter has admitted the decision of world football’s governing body to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was “a mistake”, adding it was now “probable” that the tournament would be played in the winter months." 
Like he didn't know that that was his... Read full post

I just don’t get it!  Alex Rodriguez signed a contract for $275 million to play baseball – the highest contract ever offered.  Instead of investing some of that fortune in himself by hiring fitness coaches, nutritionists, psychologists and others that would enable him to stay at the top of his game, A-Rod chose to buy performance enhancing drugs and lie about them to all of his fans and fans of baseball.  Like Lance Armstrong, A-Rod took the arrogant attitude that... Read full post

One of the things that I see a lot of in Miami Beach is people on rollerblades, not to mention skate boards, bicycles and any other type of wheels you can imagine...  But it's the rollerbladers that catch my eye because most of them struggle dangerously through the crowds walking on the sidewalks or Lincoln Road.  The common problem that they all share is a lack of understanding of what one is actually doing when skating or blading, i.e. they confuse the techniques we use to walk with... Read full post

Anyone who knows me, or follows my blog, will know that I am not a fanatic about my health; rather someone who is trying to work with what I have been given and what is avaiable to me to take advantage of the longevity that each of us possesses, but rarely considers. Our bodies are truly miraculous things.  The myriad ways that we regenerate virtually everyone one of our cells in our bones, muscles and tissue every second of every minute of everyday is mind boggling to me.  Miraculous... Read full post

Back in mid-April, I had a battery problem with Black Betty and realized that the charger I had borrowed was malfunctioning.  So I jumped on to Ombra's Betty Davis to ride over to the Advanced Autoparts store about 5 long blocks away to buy a new one.  I paused before getting on because it was a bright day and I thought I should run upstairs to grab a pair of sunglasses, but didn't follow my intuition and headed off on my mission.  I didn't get 100 feet from my home when, as I... Read full post