NTSF 126: Solace in the Slump Cycle

I thought this time shift to “save the daylight” was supposed to make it easier to retain our energy throughout the day. Yet it seems that as soon as we sprung forward, I fell back on my backside. Disjointed, jumbled around a cluttered house in what has become a prolonged moving process, I ring in St. Patrick’s Day with a head fogged not by stout and whiskey but by fatigue borne of a fortnight’s worth of lifting and packing,... Read More

NTSF 125: Back in the Technological Saddle

I feel like a kid tearing through a bucket of Halloween candy. We’re in the final stages of our move back across town to the apartment complex we temporarily left to help a friend in need, and it sure feels good to be back. Once again I have a tennis court mere footsteps away, and a pool is accessible every toasty summertime day. But what really has this Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America excited is simply being tied back into 21st-century... Read More

NTSF 114: Giving Thanks and Looking Back on a Great Year in Sports…

The frantic scrambling of fingers over the tiny keys on a phone — a pocket computer, really, truth be told, as the thing hadn’t made an actual phone call in days — searching for scores, news, updates. On the bus, walking to work, in free moments and moments he should be working, the phone is working instead, dialing up its voodoo out of the vortex. The laptop sits packed in its case, inside the backpack, yearning for some wi-fi to... Read More