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GELFAND: Brian Dozier Made a Fool of Me — and Himself — With Bunt Comments
By Mike Gelfand - Apr 6, 2018
It was just about six months ago that I cast aside my better judgment and heaped praise on Brian Dozier. Dozier plays many roles for the benefit […]
GELFAND: A Look at My First-Round NCAA Picks
By Mike Gelfand - Mar 14, 2018
Most of us can probably agree that the NCAA Tournament is basketball’s finest hour. And for those of us who spend much of our time in a […]
GELFAND: March Madness Has Gone From the “Big Dance” to the Perp Prance
By Mike Gelfand - Feb 28, 2018
A friend who lives in Kentucky swears he was walking down Louisville’s Main Street the other day when he heard a loud and angry commotion. He hurried […]
GELFAND: Lackluster Super Bowl Ads Pushed Attention Back Toward the Field
By Mike Gelfand - Feb 8, 2018
I never thought I would say this, but the Super Bowl commercials were so awful this year that I wound up watching the game instead. It’s a […]
GELFAND: “My Twin Passions are Gambling and Baseball, and the Black Sox Scandal was Both”
By Mike Gelfand - Oct 26, 2017
I’m sitting in my Barcalounger, watching Clayton Kershaw throw the first pitch of the World Series, and it occurs to me that it’s been 98 years since […]
Gelfand on Trump vs. NFL: “It’s Surreal All Over, and Getting Weirder with Every Tweet”
By Mike Gelfand - Oct 6, 2017
We are already fast forgetting Donald Trump’s manic, obscene and perhaps cunning fortnight of bellicose rants and tweets about the NFL. For now, at least, we are […]
Is It Ethical to Watch Football? Gelfand Asks His Dad
By Mike Gelfand - Sep 7, 2017
You might think this is rather quaint — you know, what with the world drowning in a toxic flood, burning in a global fire pit or hurtling […]
Twins
GELFAND: Brian Dozier and the Minnesota Twins Have Become Must-Pee TV
By Mike Gelfand - Aug 10, 2017
First, don’t blame me for what I assume will be a big fat picture of Brian Dozier urinating during the fifth inning of the Twins’ embarrassing loss […]
GELFAND: My Friend Arnold — An Idealist With a Broken Heart
By Mike Gelfand - Jul 22, 2017
One of the charms of tennis is that it tends to induce social grace — a quality that seems to be dissipating with each day’s headlines. Tennis […]
Mike Gelfand on the “Dreaded Four-Day Black Hole Known as the All-Star Break”
By Mike Gelfand - Jul 14, 2017
A gambler’s character is tested often, and sometimes at great risk. My friend Foul Mouth Dave — a legend at the racetrack — met his greatest crucible […]
Mike Gelfand Weighs in on the Umpires vs. Machines Debate
By Mike Gelfand - Jul 5, 2017
I’m not one of those early adopters. I don’t eat kale — or any other food that starts with a K. In a pinch, maybe kidney beans, […]
GELFAND: Soft-Core Psychology and Hardcore Little Leaguers
By Mike Gelfand - Jun 8, 2017
When we last met, I was making unsubtle references to the cozy relationship between Little League and authoritarianism. Some background is in order. My introduction to the […]