(Joe Heller)(Darrin Bell)Back in the 1970s, when instant replay first emerged and there was discussion of using it to confirm penalties, legendary NFL referee Art Bell said it was fine with him, but he wanted the right to check the whole tape and call any holding he noticed.It was a wiseass comment, but it was […]
I score about a .667 with xkcd, which is to say, about a third of the time, it’s too geeky for me to get the joke. That’s not a knock on the cartoon: I imagine there are people who don’t always get Tank McNamara because they don’t follow sports closely. I like the idea of […]
I haven’t featured Madam & Eve much here recently, not because it hasn’t been just as sharp as ever, but because — apart from them hogging all the good weather for the past several months — it’s been commenting on news stories that, like the aforementioned weather, haven’t really made it out of South Africa.That […]
“There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that, because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter, things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but […]