Happy New Year! Last year on New Year’s Eve my Cleveland Browns finished their perfect 0-16 season. They closed out the 2018 season just shy of a winning season with a 7-8-1 record and Baker Mayfield broke the record for most touchdown passes by a rookie quarterback in his first season. Both the Browns and …
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September is winding down so it’s time for October playoff baseball, week 3 of NFL football, and the impending start of the hockey season. But can you believe it? Thanks to their game 1 tie with the Steelers and their incredible first win in 635 days over the New York Jets this past Thursday night …
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For the fourth year in a row, my Cleveland Cavaliers were the Eastern Conference Champions! For the fourth year in a row, they faced the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. And for the second year in a row, they lost. š That photo (from the end of Game 1 when JR Smith dribbled …
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I love spring … baseball has just started and now it’s time for the Stanley Cup and NBA playoffs. My Tampa Bay Lightning are the Eastern Conference champs for the first time since the 2003-04 season (the last time they won the Stanley Cup). They start round 1 tonight against the New Jersey Devils. The …
Wake up, time to hike! We woke up at 6:00am, grabbed a quick breakfast of snacks at the hotel, and headed over to the Echo Canyon Trail parking lot at Camelback Mountain for our annual hike. By 7:00am we had started up the 1.33 mile (1,300 feet in elevation) trail to the summit. It was …
It’s our last day on the west side of the valley. We got up early this morning and after having breakfast downstairs, we packed up and checked out of our Goodyear hotel. Then we drove over to the Cleveland Indians’ Player Development Complex to watch the morning warm-ups and batting practice. As in year’s past, …
We all slept in this morning to recover from yesterday’s travelling and time zone change (for some of us, anyway). Once we were all cleaned up and ready to go, we stopped for a late breakfast at the Wildflower Bread Company (we were going to go to the Black Bear Diner but the Saturday morning …
The NHL 2018 All-Star game was here in Tampa this weekend (theĀ last time wasĀ back in 1999, before I lived in Florida) so I had to take this opportunity to experience All-Star weekend first-hand! I got tickets to both days: the Skills Competition on Saturday, and the All-Star Game on Sunday. This weekend was also the …
We rang in 2018 at Busch Gardens this year … watching the fireworks display through the skeleton of Gwazi … The park was crowded, but nothing like we’ve seen when we’ve gone to the Disney parks for NYE. There were a lot of ride closures, but with Quick Queue we were able to ride all …
sigh After Brett Gardner’s line single to right field scored two runs to put away Game 5 of the American League Division Series for the New York Yankees, hundreds of crestfallen realists in the Progressive Field stands succumbed to the inevitable. They lugged their disappointment and dashed dreams up the stairs into the night, fully …