Life’s highs

I have this penchant, it seems, for writing about sports but it not really being about sports. I can’t help myself. Lessons and parallels abound. Plus, I spent a great deal of my journalism career as a sports writer and it’s become a part of me to see...

All this fuss over a game?

This one was prompted by a question a friend posed while watching a particularly tense football game last weekend The Super Bowl teams — Patriots and Giants — give insight to the answer. Today’s Game Plan: This Is Why We Watch Sports

Winter evening, a bar, some football

It’s been a while since I went to a bar to watch a football game. But last weekend I hit Court Street in Hoboken, leaving behind work to join some friends who’d saved me a prime seat for the Giants-49ers game. Here’s what’s different about this...

Put on your Gameface

The NFL season kicks off tomorrow — Go Giants! — and among the tons of fans tuning in will be Erica Boeke, the co-author with Chris De Benedetti of a new book called Gameface, The Kick-Ass Guide for Women Who Love Pro Sports. The title pretty much says it...

Hail, Eli

Hoboken is rockin’ off its hinges right now. Horns are blowing. People are yelling in the streets. The Giants have won the Super Bowl in AMAZING fashion. Eli Manning, we bow to thee. (He might be rivaling Sinatra for favorite Hoboken boy right at the moment.)...