I'm pretty sure it means that for us West Coasters, the games will start at 9am (not 10am) followed by noon and 3pm, meaning that I will get exactly zip done for the entire group stage. On the bright side, it also means that I will for once actually get my lazy ass in to the office by 9am.

On the one hand, it's hard for me to say because (a) it is so far from my range of thinking that I would only be guessing and (b) my golfing friends are not neanderthals, fortunately. That being said, my feeling at this point is that there really isn't that much hostility towards women playing golf anymore. I almost…

I am guy, and am a strong supporter of women's sports. In my relationships, I have always enjoyed being and staying active with my girlfriends in the past and now with my wife. This has ranged from instensive pursuits, such as running or tennis, to the less intensive, yoga. etc. In most cases, the difference in…

I completed my first - and last - Ironman in 2003 (hey, it involves a marathon and the events to be described occurred after midnight, so its technically the day after). Anyway, I crashed on my bike around mile 60 and suffered a slight shoulder separation. I continued on despite searing heat and pain, finishing in…

As I've written here before, my daughter died when she was five from a malignant brain tumor. When it became clear that she would not reach her sixth birthday, we did the next best thing: we threw her a 5 and 3/4 birthday party. She loved Scooby Doo, and friends came out of the woodworks to make the day magical. …

I keep watching hoping that one time she'll do it.

I won the Babe Ruth World Series in 1989, the summer after my senior year of high school when I was 18. That never got me so much as a dry handy, let alone laid, even with my girlfriend of the time, who drove all the way from Texas to North Carolina for the tournament. Indeed, the only way she screwed me was yelling…

He was confused and thought they were playing USC, in which case everyone would agree it was warranted.

What is the set-up for this picture?: soccer player (note the shinguards) splayed out in the middle of a bike path in a country field. I can't even create story out of this that doesn't involve a tornado or an old CSI plot.

To keep your beer-loving wife sane while she's pregnant. Which reminds me, I need to pick some up on the way home from work.

Amen! My only complaint so far has been that the TV games have been shown on channels spread all over my DirecTV spectrum. It took me several minutes (the horror!) to find one of the games over the weekend. At least with Fox Soccer, I knew the games were always going to be in one place.

Oh, man, that monitor story is terrifying.

Do you think this is a one time occurrence, Ardmore of these killings in our future?

Never "Fore!"

Like Karate Men and bruising, do Ninja Pussies only bleed on the inside?

God knows (see what I did there?) believers can be just as irritating as non-believers. I happen to believe in God, but do my best to respect everyone's personal beliefs, religious or otherwise. To that end (and at the risk of being extremely long), this is a FB Note I wrote a couple of years ago that attempted to…

Have you ever thought about whether you'd exchange you sweaty shirt with your opponent after the match? Oswiecim; would you?

I work out at a CrossFit gym in South Orange County, and we have quite a few active duty Marines that are stationed at Pendleton who come in and make all of us feel small by comparison (I'm a married guy, but, ladies, I will readily acknowledge that they are fine specimens of the human form). One of them is an…

Tragedy struck when he was grazed by a passing vehicle and instinctively flung himself dramatically to the ground in an attempt to draw a penalty ... and in to the path of another incoming car.

I lost my first child, my little girl, to a brain tumor when she was five. Fast forward two years, and I learned that my wife was pregnant, and that I was going to be a daddy again. My parents were living overseas at the time, so we told them the good news via video chat on skype. I opened by asking them, "So, do…