Keith Strudler

I get it. Basically, once every four years I do a commentary right after an election, and depending on the gravity of the moment, it might feel a bit vapid to drone on about who just won a football game or drafted a point guard.

Every company has an idea of what they consider the worst thing that can happen. And it’s usually way worse than what you’d think. Like talk to an someone who works in crisis PR for an airline, and there are disasters I would have never imagined in my worst fevered dream.

Last night was the opening night for the NBA season. You may or may not have known that, because either you’re not a big NBA fan or because we’re largely in the throes of both football and the MLB Playoffs. So you may not have realized that last night launched the regular season schedule, the first two of over a thousand games played in the regular season alone.

This is not the first time I’ve talked about a college football coach getting a massive payment for effectively getting fired and asked to not coach his team anymore.

As a child of a certain era in Texas, I grew up on a certain brand of country music. Kenny Rogers, Alabama, the Oak Ridge Boys. I listened to Dolly Parton before she was retro cool.

It’s unfair to blame comedian Heather McMahan for the boorish and embarrassing behavior by American fans at last week’s Ryder Cup golf tournament on Bethpage, Long Island.

I’ve become a fan of Syracuse University athletics this year, which is something that happens when you send your kid and a whole lot of your savings up there.

Last week I was looking for something to watch, which usually means reruns of House Hunters or Magnum PI, and on the guide I came across what looked like the final stage of the Vuelta a Espana, the last of the year’s grand cycling tours – the Tour de France being the most well known.

I believe there are two kinds of people in this world. Folks who have caught a baseball at a fan at a game, and those that haven’t. I’ll actually expand that a bit to those who have caught anything from a player at a sporting event. Could be a tennis ball, a shirt thrown from a player, maybe a hockey puck.

There’s apparently a whole section at the University of North Carolina book store for shirts that without irony declare that UNC is now a football school. Sports fans recognize the twist, as Michael Jordan’s alma matter is historically known as one of the blue bloods of college basketball, along with places like Kansas and Kentucky, schools that expect to compete for basketball titles and hope for the best in the exorbitant world of big time college football.