Things are getting so bad I’ve started listening to R.E.M. again
…And I’m not sure how I feel about it. By Andrew J. Pridgen It’s not that I ever stopped liking R.E.M. it’s just that I grew up and away from them. There was more out there to discover. R.E.M. was a...
View ArticleA Guy on Girls
HBO’s Girls wraps for good on Sunday. Through six seasons, show creator, producer and star Lena Dunham never learned to write male characters …or did she? By Andrew J. Pridgen I remember the post-9/11...
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Tom Hanks just destroyed the NFL, the Raiders, Las Vegas …and the DH in under...
I guess we can close up shop here. Our work is done. By Andrew J. Pridgen It’s easy to hate on Tom Hanks sometimes. He made me think it was OK hold forth with strangers on a bench while holding a...
View ArticleI thought Soundgarden sucked …then I grew up
RIP Chris Cornell. Sorry I said such mean things about you when I was a teenager. I didn’t mean it. I didn’t “get it” at the time. By Andrew J. Pridgen I am one of the fortunate few who doesn’t...
View ArticleFrank Deford’s America is one team we won’t see repeat
He wrote about great dynasties and their eventual demise. Unwittingly, he chronicled the rise and downfall of the greatest dynasty of all. By Andrew J. Pridgen Frank Deford, 78, died Sunday at his home...
View ArticleThe necessity of Congress playing baseball today
“The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked...
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9/11/17
Paul K. Sloan died on the 89th floor South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Donations to the memorial fund in Paul’s name can be made to the Brown Sports Foundation, Box 1925,...
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