Even though I am terrifying of jinxing the Chargers, it has become clear that the team is playing its best football since the AFC Championship season of 1994. Sure, the Bolts made the playoffs in 1995, but the only quality team they beat during their seven-game winning streak that year were the same Colts team […]

There’s this scene in the film “Glory” towards the beginning of the picture. The 54th Massachusetts Regiment is beginning their training under the rigid Sergeant Mulcahy. The Irish sergeant, not a big fan of the “colored soldiers,” singles out Matthew Broderick’s friend, Thomas. Colonel Shaw (Broderick) asks him to step aside to talk. After he […]

I called up my friend LeRoy on the phone
I said, Buddy, I’m afraid to be alone
I got some weird ideas in my head
About things to do in Denver when you’re dead

I know I’ve used that quote before, but Warren Zevon has terminal lung cancer and there’s really not a lot of references you can use […]

After the wonderful blur that was the Stones show at Giants Stadium last Saturday, I awoke in my Manhattan apartment feeling less-than-splendid. I literally saw myself sleeping right up until kickoff. But the fact that the Chargers game was going to be televised locally for the first time since last year’s home contest against Denver […]