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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Section 203 – A Yankees Blog – Looking Ahead Edition

Maybe the Los Angels Angels of Anaheim have some secret voodoo curse on the New York Yankees.  Maybe the Yankees’ kryptonite are teams clad in red.  Who knows?  Or maybe the Yankees were just looking ahead to the All-Star break.   I know.  Clever.  I try.  Actually the more I try to move on and look [...]

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