Clipsheet

Herein lie the most important part of this Web site. This is it folks. This truly is all that I've contributed to the great beyond. My contribution to the human race. It's slim pickings, I know.

This section is the repository of all work, generally non-fiction work, I've been fortunate enough to be published in the mainstream media. In periodicals. Newspapers. It helps to adjust your expectation of “mainstream" before entering.

Full court press for face time

Don't you feel the atmosphere? That 70-degree-weather you're feeling is not global warming. No. It's the mounting excitement, the heart-in-the-throat heroics that is a child of the courts.

Two can play at this game, O.J.

I'm no acquitted double-murderer. I'm no 11,236-yard career rusher. What I am, however, is capable of a "If I Did It" like retrospective.

Hey, sports guys!

You are quite right to point out our omission of Title IX from our reports regarding a future VCU football team, though, we are not sure you correctly conclude that men's sports would need to be cut in the name of Title IX.

So good it hurts to watch

And a woman didn't put me in this way. No. Instead let me show you the Washington Redskins. Let's take a closer look.

Hey, sports guys!

We do know that a few years ago the administration cited finances as a major reason to forgo bringing a team to town. What we don't know is whether this assertion was in response to a study or high-level discussion, or whether it was in response to a reporter's pesky question.

Retired and washed up find resurgence in politics

Tonight is the night of the re-return: the night of the washed-out athlete turned political hopeful. It's the last chance for those who've fallen from grace to grab back their good name.

Street justice on the gridiron

The playoff-bound South County Raptors were supposed to play in the first round of the Fairfax County playoffs on Saturday. Instead, the team's two coaches were fired by the commissioner.

Magic: 15 years later

Magic was magic. He was bigger than Michael, bigger than Dr. J. and Larry Bird. He was bigger than big and on top of the world.

We don't want to go there

The U.S. educational system is already in such a state of decline, it would be shameful -- immoral even -- to divert funds from our academic programs to fund football.

Contempt for the field of dreams

As I grow older, I find it harder and harder to appreciate big American-based events like the World Series and the Super Bowl. Sure, I enjoy watching them for the love of the game and all that, but they just don't mean as much as they used to.