Category Archives: Sports

April Madness

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Terry Taylor

After 24-hour-a-day basketball, what are we supposed to watch now? American Idol? Baseball that doesn’t matter? Diners, Drive-Ins and the Toast Chees I used to eat every day for lunch?

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Drunk and Dressed To The Hilt

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I went to a Southern university where proper ladies and gentlemen of culture wore suits, ties and sundresses to football games on Saturday. Since I was neither proper nor cultured and wouldn’t recognize a lady or a gentleman if they … Continue reading →

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The Crowd

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Terry Taylor

An old friend of mine, Peter Kaufman, recently invited me to a function where it was my job to be a panelist, talking to a fairly large group (who paid to get in – more for the drinks than the … Continue reading →

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You Think Brett Favre Has Seen It All?

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Terry Taylor

We tend to attach logos to the ends of our accomplishments in branding. I’d like to look at the last 29 years, however, as experiences (plural) rather than experience (singular). There is a big difference.

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Racing To Change

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Terry Taylor

When I was a kid in Montgomery, Alabama, my dad took me to the Montgomery International Speedway on Saturday nights to watch men like Donnie and Bobby Allison race Red Farmer and maybe some shade-tree mechanics from Prattville or Wetumpka … Continue reading →

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Strike Three, We’re Out

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Terry Taylor

It hurts to lose a baseball game. It hurts even more to lose your entire team.

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Orange Bowl R.I.P.

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Terry Taylor

The most popular funeral tune is Amazing Grace. I can hear it now, the strains of the old notes riding the breeze north from Miami. How sweet the sound.

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JJ and the Texas Big House

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Terry Taylor

The old man slammed the sports section of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram down on the just-wiped table, took off his sweat-stained Resistol, placed it in the seat beside him and settled in with several other breakfast regulars in the cinderblock … Continue reading →

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Speed Bumps

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Terry Taylor

NASCAR has hit a few speed bumps, according to a recent article in The New York Times. Attendance and TV viewership aren’t growing like they once were; new race venues around the country have been axed or aren’t pulling the … Continue reading →

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Our Partial List of Things That Make This the South

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Terry Taylor

It is impossible, in one blog, to even attempt to address the things that make the South a unique place. Note: You may see a food pattern forming below, but that’s okay. If you see a skinny Southerner, that just … Continue reading →

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