Aging is a wonderful gift. Yeah, the knees start to hurt, the memory imperceptibly but irrevocably fades, your doctor starts making you get ...

It is generally not good to write while angry, and inadvisable to allow a game played by 18-year-olds to affect your happiness. Neverthele...

Photo Credit: Patrick O'Leary, Regents of the University of Minnesota 2005 September 2, 2000 was a sunny Saturday at the Hubert H. Humph...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z5fH_DQmFY Sportsball.  Whether from right or left, RETVRN Twitter or Bluesky elders, it implies lack of se...

As one of the 6.5 people who read this blog, I suspect you also had elaborate plans to see the Gophers in the Rose Bowl. There aren’t a lo...

The vibes were immaculate. The tailgates lots around the stadium were filled with heavy traffic of smiling, excited Gopher fans. Black and g...

I identify a difference between “happiness” and “joy”. I associate “happiness” with a state of satisfaction relating to a specific event or ...

Sports aren’t important. Relative to family, friends, one’s community, religion, pets, and professional life, the performance of one’s sport...

Reeled from the sabre stroke    Shattered and sundered. Then they rode back, but not    Not the six hundred. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson November...

This is a weird one in that I feel it most in my teeth. Not sure that’s ever happened before. Can’t say I’m a fan.   I’ve gotten pretty go...

It’s been a fun week in Gopher fandom. Every day the Michigan message boards creep towards clarity.  Michigan State’s athletics department c...

I really hate Wisconsin. Like, an every-fiber-of-my being, diagnosable personality disorder level of hate. I get triggered when I see a Wisc...