Recent Comments by rhickok

Best High School Football Stadiums

My high school stadium was rented by the Green Bay Packers for their Sunday NFL games until Lambeau field opened.

posted by rhickok at 10:04 AM on October 22, 2008

Not tonight, honey, I have a game tomorrow.

Casey Stengel used to say that it's not the sex that hurts an athlete's performance, it's the staying up all night chasing after it.

posted by rhickok at 08:30 AM on July 18, 2008

Cheaters

After his election to the Hall of Fame, Whitey Ford admitted that he sometimes doctored the ball, with considerable help from Elston Howard.

posted by rhickok at 08:35 AM on August 10, 2006

These are your 2006 MLB Some-Stars!

Why the anti-Loretta sentiments? He's hitting 26 points higher than Belliard, 35 points higher than Lopez, and he has half as many errors (3 to 6 for each them).

posted by rhickok at 08:43 AM on July 03, 2006

The Long Road to the Top: Two Years to Determine Fastest Marathoner!

In fact, the championship will be awarded every year beginning in 2007 because the seasons will be taken as overlapping. Winning the 2007 Boston Marathon, for example, will count both toward the 2007 championship and the 2008 championship.

posted by rhickok at 09:06 AM on April 18, 2006

1966 'Glory Road' Miners to visit White House

The Texas Western team had five black starters, but you don't have to have an all-black starting lineup to "break the color barrier." The 1950 CCNY team that won both the NCAA and NIT tournaments had three black players, two of them starters. And that's just basketball. The article says "college athletics," which is absurd. The first black All-American football player was William H. Lewis, who played for Harvard in 1892 and 1893. And he had previously played for Amherst. If he didn't break the color barrier in college athletics, I don't know who did.

posted by rhickok at 11:03 AM on February 19, 2006

Lions hire Marinelli

Monte Kiffin has been the Bucs' defensive coordinator since 1996. Marinelli was their defensive line coach.

posted by rhickok at 01:46 PM on January 19, 2006