Writing the Pine

Weekend Sports Musings

  • Obama to Denmark to pitch Olympics bid President Barack Obama is headed to Denmark to go ice fishing and plead the case for Chicago as the host city for the 2016 Olympics.  “We need this Olympic bid badly,” said Obama to press reporters over the weekend.  From WTP, here’s to better luck than he has had pleading [...]

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Vick-timized

Watch CBS Videos Online I didn’t really have an interest in touching on the subject of Michael Vick, but Anderson said I should so I am.  I didn’t watch the 60 Minutes interview when it aired because those athlete interviews are just too predictable.  Athletes aren’t the most eloquent or intellectual dudes and rarely are they [...]

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