Posts Tagged “sports”

The Bums Who Would Be Champs (or: Macho Hercules!)

by Dan Oshinsky on June 19, 2010

In the fall of 2007, I decided that I wanted to study abroad. The rationale was simple: I was running out of classes to take at the University of Missouri, and also, I could get away with it. Seemed logical enough at the time. I decided that I’d go to Spain, and the study abroad (…)

When Suggesting That a French Man Needs to Move Lands You on New York Sports Talk Radio.

by Dan Oshinsky on May 12, 2010

The first thought was that I was being pranked. Sure, I’d just written a fairly controversial column about why the Spurs should trade Tony Parker for Kens5.com. It had generated quite a few hits on our website, and I’d gotten plenty of e-mail feedback from readers about it. But a radio station in New York (…)

Wait, You People Still Speak to Each Other?

by Dan Oshinsky on January 25, 2010

I haven’t been home to D.C. since I left for south Texas just over seven months ago. I keep up with some home friends via phone, and I caught up with a few earlier this month out in L.A. But for a good chunk of news and gossip from home, I rely on an email (…)

The Day I Accidentally Rooted for Kansas.

by Dan Oshinsky on December 17, 2009

I want to take it back. I cannot un-know what I know. I cannot reverse time. I cannot deny what has happened. But I cannot imagine going on knowing that one day, fourteen years ago, I may have accidentally rooted for Kansas. ¶¶ My dad used to do a bit of work with the D.C.-area (…)