Even with the last name mis-spelling, it’s nice to be remembered fondly for my efforts — on-air efforts! — at 89X.
Also, FYI, the picture is scan of the original “The Cutting Edge” bumper sticker, which I’ve not been able to find elsewhere online and fished out of my desk drawer archives. Unfortunately, the neon orange 88.7 and Edge parts aren’t showing up too well, but it’s so very early ’90′s, no?
Bristol under the lights is arguably the most entertaining NASCAR race — hell, any motorsports race, anywhere — of the year, especially in the dog days of late August.
Swear to God, it’s the closest thing I know of to a real-life Rollerball:
If you haven’t seen “Hung” yet, you should on Sundays. Not only is it made in Detroit, but it has a great and funny take on American ennui, both sexual and not.
It’s only about sex the way “The Sopranos” was only about the Mob.
One of the most notorious (and entertaining) moments in Detroit Tigers history, and, especially, the Chicago White Sox, was Disco Demolition Night, at old Comiskey Field on July 12, 1979. Legendary Detroit and Chicago radio guy Steve Dahl was behind it, and reminisces on the eve of its 30th anniversary:
And Keith Olbermann took a look back on the 25th Anniversary:
The bottom line is that the Tigers won the nightcap, the last forfeit in American League history.
BTW, in looking around for links on this post, I found this great take which, though a bit Wings-bashing, is a great contribution to the canon supporting the theory that, indeed, Bettman Sucks.
