THE OA is one of the best TV series of modern times.  Netflix made me hate Netflix when it oddly cancelled it.  Ignorant.  One of the worst choices ever.  Imagine if NBC canceled Cheers or Seinfeld, as they wanted to, due to numbers.  I also can’t believe that NO ONE picked it up!? NO ONE!? […]

Thanks Bob, for remembering The Records and some of our songs (second time around if I cast my mind back to 2006). Since then, the group’s bassist Phil Brown and co-writer and singer John Wicks have sadly died. I am occasionally in touch with Jude Cole who appeared on ‘Crashes’ and toured with us in […]

Football is now the game everybody’s watching and nobody’s playing — Think any-given-Sunday gladiators, or, if you’re a Boomer: Rollerball –  while soccer is the game everybody’s playing and nobody’s watching. The son of a highly regarded high school football coach, I played the sport though middle and high school.  Truth be told, when my high school […]

“THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE SPORT – How race, politics, culture and money are shaping which kids abandon tackle football — and which keep risking its toll.” Free link: https://wapo.st/3GQhcmx (You must at least scan this article, look at the charts, you must.) Do you feel guilty when you watch football? I certainly do, […]