Tag: Sports
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I’ve Been Pondering…
My lack of successful predictions. As we begin my all-time favorite sporting event, the first two rounds of March Madness, I remembered that I’ve never predicted a NCAA March Madness Final Four and I’ve definitely learned this month that I can’t predict the weather. My sports predictions have been so bad at times that my…
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Favorites Of The Week
Snow and soup season arrives…Sylvester Stallone and Tulsa King…Fabulous Wall Street Journal article comparing the unbelievable Buffalo Bills/Minnesota Vikings game last weekend to a dog stealing a car…Michelle Obama: The Light We Carry – A Conversation With Robin Roberts…first visit of trumpeter swans…great Michigan State Spartans basketball double overtime win over Kentucky…muttering constantly at the…
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Favorites Of The Week
Lunar eclipse…Harper pulling on the leash during every shot of the lunar eclipse…Notre Dame ranked #20 after a great win against Clemson…Exciting overtime win by LSU against Alabama…Clouds…Enjoying ice cream on the deck in November…Appreciating just a trickle of leaves left falling on the yard…Ticket To Paradise…The Suspect…Alex Ovechkin pass and most goals with one…
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Favorites Of The Week
NFL Hall of Fame game…Premier League season begins today…Breadsticks and Alfredo sauce…backyard visitors…one month closer to favorite month of the year…getting lost in paint samples…beautiful sunrise after a stormy night…watching the latest Minions movie this evening…
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Thursday Tidbits
Harper decided she wasn’t interested in the “Dry January” idea and she’s not sharing…Almost forgot what sunshine looked like until we actually had a few hours of blue skies last weekend…Binge-watch of the week was the wonderful Netflix documentary series Pretend It’s A City with Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz…Busy NHL GameCenter season with 116 straight…
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Thursday Tidbits
Enjoyed my first book of the year, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, and after thinking about which favorite British actors could be cast as the lead characters, I discovered that Steven Spielberg’s production company has bought the rights to the book…As the NFL playoffs begin I’m hoping that it will be the Green Bay Packers…
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Monday Musings
Self-Isolation Trend #7 The no sports trend has been going on for months and I’ve had a few different reactions throughout this trend. First phase was during the initial shock where it was still too painful to watch ESPN, check my sports notifications or watch any replays. Second phase included still not watching ESPN, glancing…
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No Sports Saturday
I’m very aware of the seriousness of events occurring right now, but please allow me to rant for a few seconds about the first Saturday in my lifetime without sports and an extended stoppage of play of all sports. No March Madness in March, no March Madness brackets (and losing to my brother for another…
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Saturday Sports
Saturday is usually all about College Football, but today will require flipping the channels to capture the best games of the day. Brighton vs. Tottenham (7:30 am) ESPN College GameDay Live in Florida (9:00 am) Iowa vs. Michigan (12:00 pm) Bowling Green vs. Notre Dame (3:30 pm) Auburn vs. Florida (3:30 pm) Minnesota Twins vs.…
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Themeless Thursday
It’s time for October baseball and I’m going to make an educated guess that the New York Yankees are going to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers later this month in the World Series…I began the season with the hopeful guess (wish???) that Bryce Harper and the Phillies would be playing the Yankees for the Championship…I’m…
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