Yuli, Lourdes Sr & Jr |
Yuli, Lourdes Sr & Jr |
Unfortunately for us, we have been to Discount Tire several times. We have bought at least $1600 worth of tires at this store, $1150 in the past 18 months (we spent another $555 on tires at a different shop last year – not Discount Tire, for our daughter’s car.)
It doesn’t get any better than this song – a celebration of the long, historic, successful history of the Texas Longhorns football team. Many universities have histories of memorable teams and players, but those of us who have been fans of the Texas Longhorns are convinced that our team has the greatest history. We are, of course, absolutely correct.
After I wrote the third book in my Jonathan Stephens series, it occurred to me that with those books, I had limited my potential audience. The Jonathan books were only aimed at boys. Not many girls in that age group want to read books about boys, so I started thinking about how I could write for both girls and boys. Why not expand my reader base?
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner. My wife and I have a daughter and a son, so our house has always focused on girl and boy stuff. I came up with the idea of a girl and boy who worked together to solve mysteries, and the result was The Natalie & Noah Mysteries: The Garbage Vandal. Natalie and Noah are 8 year-old third grade students who have been friends for several years.
NASCAR announced that Mexico City will host NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series events beginning in 2025. The first thought at this news may well be, “wow, that’s interesting, but which track will lose a race?” According to Nick Bromberg in this Yahoo Sports story, Richmond Raceway will lose one of its race dates. Yet again, NASCAR tries to grow while gutting its heritage and its past – when it isn’t necessary.
They are killing off the short tracks.
Sometimes, the only baseball on television involves the New York Yankees. When the Yankees are on MLB Network, they always use the Yankees broadcast. You would think that once in a while, the network would choose the other team’s feed – but nope, every damn time it’s Michael Kay and Paul O'Neill.
There are three acceptable ways to watch when this unfortunate event happens:
NASCAR has a new voice for NBC TV race broadcasts – the veteran Leigh Diffey. If you watched IndyCar racing or the Olympics in recent years, you have heard Diffey’s distinctive voice. This is one of the best moves that NBC Sports and NASCAR have made in decades, bringing this fresh voice and perspective to NASCAR racing on television.
Ironically, Burton was informed in July that he would not return to the Wood Brothers team in 2025.
Cavan Biggio was once considered a prospect – a promising, young talent in baseball. The son of Hall of Famer Craig Biggio, Cavan was drafted in 2016 in the 5th round by the Toronto Blue Jays. By 2019, he was the #10 prospect in the organization, and a year later he was called up to the Major Leagues. Unfortunately for Biggio, the early promise has faded.
The Astros July 30 trade will turn out to be one of the biggest mistakes in recent memory. GM Dana Brown dealt Joey Loperfido, Jake Bloss, and Will Wagner to the Toronto Blue Jays for pitcher Yusei Kikuchi. This deal looked bad from the start and it’s only going to get worse as time goes on. The worst part of the trade for Houston was giving up Wagner (Astros #13 prospect).
This trade is going to end up biting Dana Brown where it hurts.
Fans of the New York Yankees have to be wondering when the team will give T.J. Rumfield a chance to see what he can do in the Major Leagues. The 24 year-old 1B/3B is having a solid season at Triple-A Scranton, yet he is not even on the Yankee’s 30 Top Prospects list.
Rumfield, 6’5, 225 lb, was drafted in 2021 by the Phillies in the 12th round of the amateur draft and was traded to the Yankees in November 2021. Since then, he was quietly worked his way up through the Yankees minor league system.
When I was a 2nd grade teacher, I was always looking for chapter books that I could read to my class. I had a couple of favorites that I used, but I was constantly looking for more. I wanted books featuring characters that my students could relate to – characters they could admire, and others they could see were not admirable.
One spring day, I found myself with some rare extra time. I went to the school library to see if I could find suitable books for my students. Books I might read to the class, and books that kids would want to and be able to read on their own. I wandered around the library looking at possible books and it occurred to me that I should write one myself.
'Clear beer' and Hazy IPA |
Apparently, this has been a thing for quite a while. Clearly, I am behind the times on this. Then again, it took me a long time to get into craft beers in the first place.
Writing headlines is a talent all by itself. Writing well is an art form, of course, and writing headlines is an entirely separate sort of challenge. Obviously, you want to compose a headline that leads the reader into your article and convinces as many people as possible to go on to read the story.
The problem is that sometimes, people don’t read past the headline.