Pop Culture Lunch Box

I didn’t go baseball crazy until the late 1970s, so I missed all the hoopla by a handful of years. But anyone who knows a little about the g...

Since I've whole-heartedly gotten back into competitive tennis, former pro Brad Gilbert's classic Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Te...

Bill Walton was mostly before my time in the worlds of college and pro basketball, but he was so much bigger than life that it was impossibl...

I know a lot of rock'n'roll hipsters like to proclaim the greatness of producer/musician Steve Albini , and while I can appreciate a...

It's downright strange that serving is so difficult in tennis. I mean, I almost never miss a serve in volleyball and I almost never play...

If you grew up in the St. Louis area in the 1980s like I did, then chances are you'll never have a more favorite Major League Baseball t...

I was just a little too young to watch O.J. Simpson during his prime Buffalo Bills era, although I still have some cards from when he was on...

I summarized some of the helpful hints from the first half of the classic tennis self-help book, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guid...

I've always loved mountain biking. I don't do it anymore as much as other activities like tennis and road biking, but when I do, I a...

Skiing in powdery snow must be what flying feels like to a bird. Instead of each wing, it's each leg - left then right then left - swoos...

This is part 3 of my series on Andre Agassi's Open: An Autobiography, a must-read for tennis fans. Part 1 covered his epic 5-setter at ...

I've been a fan of the University of North Carolina's hoops team since I was a pre-teen, when Michael Jordan was pouring in buckets ...

The Little Green Book of Tennis Wisdom , edited by Julie Ganz, is a breezy quick read of great quotes about tennis. Here are my the ones I f...

For me, Golden Richards was the epitome of the pretty-boy Dallas Cowboys of the 1970s. I also think Richards, the talented wide receiver wh...

Yesterday, I enjoyed my first trip this season to Liberty Mountain Resort for a day of skiing with my son and two of his friends. Despite t...

I was recently watching some footage of Rafael Nadal playing tennis as a kid, and it was amazing to see how similar his game then was to wha...

News this week that Sports Illustrated has fired its entire staff and Pitchfork has been folded under GQ's operations is not exactly sho...

The top roadblocks keeping people from playing their best tennis are time, age, athletic ability, and money. (It can cost $50,000 annually t...

Jackson at the Troy skatepark It’s been a bit of a journey in my mind to fully appreciate my son Jackson’s commitment to the sport of scoote...

The years 1993 to 1997 were my most sports-crazed years as an adult. I worked as the sports editor at The Alestle, the student newspaper of ...