When Hurricane Irene was heading for New Jersey, where I currently live, it wreaked a lot of havoc on my fantasy football draft, which was ...

When I was growing up in New York, I was a Rangers fan, which was a very difficult inheritance that my father had bestowed upon me. Going t...

I've been filling in for my colleague Tristan H. Cockcroft this week on some of his baseball columns as he takes a well-earned week off ...

Sorry for the lack of new posts this week... Not only did we spend some time up at Bristol, locked in a room with my ESPN fantasy brethren -...

It wasn't your best for you for me, yo yo yo! Here's where I am fed up with American Idol ... It's not the constant praise t...

We're losing another choice today from the hunt for the true identity of Marty the Fishboy. Sadly, for those of you who selected the op...

Our quest to discover the true identity of Marty the Fishboy takes another step forward today, as we eliminate one more of our multiple choi...

Who is Marty the Fishboy? All will be explained soon. But until then, why not take a stab at it?  Marty the Fishboy is: A) A professional ...

AJ's no Gary Busey. That's a good thing. I know, I've been slacking. It's been a few days since my last post. Please forg...

I coach my 6-year-old's soccer team, and just received the list of names on the "randomly selected roster" of kids who I will...

This past weekend I was asked to be a judge in my local area's Tri-County Spelling Bee, a feeder competition to the national Scripps eve...

He's got some Adrian Adonis DNA No, this post isn't about the Oscars, painfully unfunny as much of the scripted schtick was... but ...

Yes, Regis. That is my final answer... After watching Watson, a computer, defeat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the amount of alarm that I...

As I write this, James Randi is very much alive. He shouldn't be, of course, since he has been taking fatal doses of sleeping pills on a...

It's just a jump to the left! PHONECIA, New York — You may be signing that checkbook with your John Hancock today, but you might be sur...

This is the text of a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated and just two mon...

There's two ways to look at the phenomena of flash mobs. On the one hand, these "drive-by, surprise performance attacks" point...

"Reading this blog makes you 74 percent smarter." Of course, I have no proof to back up this claim, but so what? Clearly if enoug...