Spittin' Sports and History

In the past weeks the viewing audience have had the chance to see The Last Dance and Grant as documentaries.  One is about a basketball player and one about a general/president. The basketball player got 10 hours, millions of viewers, panel discussions, multi-network coverage, and mixed reviews. The general/president got 6 hours, some viewers, no panel discussions, one network coverage, and outstanding reviews. Does that say anything about where our interests are most days? Don't answer. Michael Jordan and Ulysses Grant are and were unique figures in American society. Physically, they were total opposites. Perhaps in other ways it is not the case. Look at the following statements/descriptions and see which one fits Jordan and which fit Grant. "dogged determination" "not a model student" "started over when things looked grim" "could see an entire area" "had a working partnership" "Rookie of the Year" "small for his siz...

Sports and history have been partners since the beginning of time.  The cavemen probably had contests to see who could throw a rock the longest distance or maybe a wife.  It's just something in our nature, and it will never lessen.  During the virus time we have missed sports as history was being made, and we probably didn't notice any events that were monumental. It will take historians at later times to tell us what was going on as we watched re-runs of football or  basketball. Actually there were some live events like the Cornhole championship or the ax throwing contest. Ax throwing--now there's a blend of sports and history because the skill has to go back to centuries ago. And just when I thought that it was really not worth anyone's attention, I noticed that two franchises had opened in Austin for ax throwers. I had thought it was a sport that people in Wisconsin in plaid shirts liked. Nobody in Austin is wearing a plaid shirt. But if I have to bet my money on ...