The Grandstander

  Somewhere in the 1959-1960 time frame, I was being indoctrinated into becoming a "sports fan" by my Dad, two older brothers, and...

Readers know of my penchant for writing about Absent Friends.  For the last four plus years, I feared the coming of the day when I would be ...

I took in the newest James Bond movie, "No Time To Die", yesterday.  As anyone with even the slightest interest in such things kno...

  For numerous reasons, I have been completely detached from the MLB Playoffs here in 2021.  I probably have not seen five innings total thr...

  Big changes in the GPR this week: Cardinals 7-0 Bucs 6-1 Packers 6-1 Rams 6-1 The Cowboys (5-1) and the Bills drop out because they didn...

A phrase that I often use in this space when writing about a particularly notable game or contest is "this is why you follow sports....

The NFL cruises through another exciting week, and the GPR becomes tougher to figure out each week, but here we go..... Cardinals (6-0).  Wh...