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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“After that only death could prevent my following Captain McNelly.”- George Durham quote from FOLLOW ME TO HELL by Tom Clavin Hopefully, at this point you’ve purchased and read this book along with every other book on the Old West that Tom Clavin has authored. They are all worth it. If not, it’s ok. I’ll
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“North London forever. Whatever the weather. These streets are our home.”- Louis Mark Dunford The round version of football is back! It feels like last season that Arsenal played Liverpool in Anfield two weeks ago. The season began and then took a two-week sabbatical for the international break, but it finally has returned. Tomorrow morning
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
My neighbor was a farmer. So was everybody else’s in the land of cotton, soybean, and hay fields. Everybody had a neighbor with cows, chickens, or pigs. A few farmers may have had all three, but most stuck with one or the other. I grew up surrounded by cotton fields, century old oaks, and telephone
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“It’s not just about winning or losing, but winning is more fun.” -anonymous football fan Winning is fun. That’s a fact. Losing is not as fun. That’s also understood. Playing the game is always fun. Currently there are twenty teams that haven’t tasted victory and fifty-four that have yet to lose. With 83 percent of
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
‘It’s 60 degrees this morning. The sky is clear, the air is clear, and the mountains appear closer than they have in weeks. The pollution and wildfire smoke that had clouded the entire valley in a constant, dense haze that was unpleasing to eye and lungs were washed away by the two-day rain that just
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
Has last weekend’s heavy meal of football digested yet? Might need to fast 40 hours or so to get the gut clear and ready to do it all over again. Run some hills, swim some laps, do some burpees so you can justify that third slice of pie on Sunday afternoon. Dessert will have to
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
Forty-Four Football Picks Against the Spread Just for fun. Always remember, it’s just for fun. It’s 12:05 on the digital stove clock. My mind is awake; the house is asleep. Time to burn off some of this surplus brain activity by picking as many college football games as I can. These are going to be
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“I went to Springfield once. I never went again.” Springfield, the “Cashew Chicken Capital of the world” or so they say. Also, the home of The Missouri St Bears who are fresh off a win at Marshall. This Saturday afternoon, the Mustangs of SMU are coming to town. First for a plate of gas station
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“What makes great rivals is when you are fully invested in defeating the other, and this includes a healthy dose of familiarity and respect.”- Mike Leach It’ll be warm this weekend across the middle of the country. Warmer than most would prefer for the second Saturday in September. Certainly the air is warmer than my
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
General Update: 9/7 “I’m very hot and I’m very wrong. You’re a bad boy.”- Dan Patrick What a week. Falling stars, mellow mallard hens, napping moose, and an unexplainable plate of salad in the park at 5AM. Even I couldn’t make this stuff up. Oh yeah, and football is back. This time all the way.