Seventeen years ago I had a nasty bike accident.  I still pick a granule of gravel out of my elbow on occasion.  If there had been a car on the road, I would have been easily killed.  Luckily, there wasn't. I wrecked my bike and just didn't buy a new one.  By then I was into driving and lived in the country where there was no good place to ride (which factored into my accident).  I thought about trying again in college but my roommate who was an avid bike rider fell a...

Let me start by saying I love to watch Fall football.  Thanksgiving just wouldn't be the same without a football game playing.  I played flag football in school (I'm a girl so, back then, couldn't play football).  I will encourage my boys to play the game informally because it is fun.  But I know what it can do to a body and I don't want them to go through that. My dad was a really good high school football player.  He never played professionally but still suffer...

I personally think that most sports are extremely boring to watch.  I can understand the appeal in playing or watching if you know someone is playing.  I just don't follow pro sports on TV at all. One term I don't understand at all and am hoping someone can understand is a 3-pt basket being called a field goal in basketball.  What the heck?  Soccer is on a field, football is on a field, basketball is on a....court!  Where on earth does the term come from?