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Couple of radio recent radio appearances: in June during a Michigan golf/motorcycle trip, we visited our buddy Michael Patrick Shiels as a guest on The Big Show, his Michigan drive-time talk radio program, talking about the trip and about MI tourism. Earlier this year, Ann Ligouri had me on as a guest on Sports Innerview to chat about golf travel and issues, with a bit of comedy here and there.These pics from my recent cross-country motorcycle trip feature my beautiful Moto Guzzi -- last January Fairways and Greens ran a feature about the trip which took me from Brooklyn to Big Sky, Ketchum, McCall, and Bend. For more photos, scroll to the bottom of the images page.
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Some other groovy motorcycle stuff from last year: went to Ducati's '06 Monster launch for Superbike Planet -- last fall I paid a visit to Yamaha's 50th anniversary party in Central Park.
Very cool ink from colleague Jonathan Abrahams in Golf Magazine's Golfonline, which blew my cover as a comedian last year.
Looking for Ray Field, budding comedian? Here's a link to my comedy page, where you can check out a recent set.
This is a phun pheature about road geeks from the Sunday magazine section of the Hartford Courant.
Even if you don't ride motorcycles, odds are you'll enjoy these biker portraits from the Courant. Enthusiasts might want to read this critique of the American Motorcyclist Association, along with my response to the AMA's counterattack.
Check out this credit-card statement travesty from Jest Magazine.
Lotsa golf travel articles recently, for Travel & Leisure Golf, Links, Golf, Golf for Women, and The Met Golfer about Northern Ireland, Washington, D.C., the Alabama Golf Trail, Palmetto Bluff, and the Dominican Republic. Past stories you'll find on the golf page include an encounter with Arnold Palmer, golf on Maui, and interviews with Frank Hannigan and Curt Sampson.
If you've got decent bandwidth and any kind of tolerance for pointy-headed analysis, listen to this appearance on a radio show called "Athletes on the Couch," hosted by sports psychologist Dr. Tom Ferraro, along with Dr. Richard Koenigsberg, where we discussed the death wish and sports. The mp3 file is about 3MB large.
Here's a slap at major league baseball's antitrust exemption, from Newsday.
Hell, you want disestablishmentarianism? -- here's something that really Sucked, for the benefit of Mr. Knight (which actually resulted in a petty act of vandalism on my apartment). Of historical interest is this diagnosis of the Jets' head coaching woes, though they took care of that one.
It's boring to complain about how athletes get paid too much -- it's much more interesting to complain about sports being spoiled by rampant professionalism (from Newsday's op-ed page). Or, bid farewell to Jets head coach Bill Parcells.
Then you might consider whether it's time to consider legalizing sports gambling -- or, whether Long Island's new minor-league baseball franchise needs a new name. Pay Yahoo! Internet Life a visit and have a look at "The E-Mail Chronicles". Other side-splitting sermons you'll find on our Golf Writing page, courtesy of Newsday's op-ed section, are about helmet laws and dumb organizations that oppose them, and Casey Martin and Hideki IrabuJust added, to mark the demise of that Bette Midler movie, is an old review of a Jacqueline Susann bio, a bit catty but effective, written for the East Hampton Star. (Men hate her, women stick up for her.) There's also "Putt for Peace," a Memorial Day look at golf and war.
And now, a couple photos, too!
DOS & Don'ts was originally written for Suck, but then -- aw, you wouldn't believe me, anyway. Also new is a brief thingie about a nice poker hand pulled a few New Year's Eves ago in Las Vegas.
You can "Choose the Right Short Iron," with the help of USGS Player. Don't forget Sleeper Hold, a must-read for even casual pro wrestling fans -- be sure and check out the interview with the late "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers. Keep an eye on my bio, I'm gonna start naming names pretty soon. Yes, there's a links page, but you don't have to look at mine if I don't have to see yours.
New in town? Take a look at the W.C. Fields and Woody Allen stories, not to mention the motorcycling Vermont feature from Continental's inflight magazine.
Last updated: 7/6/08
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