by Michael Leppert | Apr 26, 2019 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life, Sports
It has been thirty years since the release of the Kevin Costner movie, Field Of Dreams. Paul Newberry of the Associated Press wrote about the movie’s anniversary last weekend and it got a few of us in the Indiana Statehouse talking. The metaphorical overload of...
by Michael Leppert | Apr 5, 2019 | Politics/Government, Sports
“Don’t count that, I was interfered with!” are famous words from the famous blow-hard golf cheater from Caddyshack, Judge Smails. He said it to his caddy, Danny Noonan, right after he kicked his tee shot out from under a tree on the first hole at...
by Michael Leppert | Feb 1, 2019 | Pop/Life, Sports
I don’t even remember how it caught my eye. It has made me smile a dozen times since though, and I hope those who haven’t seen it yet will take two minutes and watch. Amy Bockerstette has Down syndrome. That is actually secondary, yet essential to the...
by Michael Leppert | Oct 5, 2018 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life, Sports
One of the more thoughtful people I follow on Twitter made this comment about 6:00 Thursday night: “My favorite thing about today so far is that there are only six hours left of it.” Yes. I expand that sentiment to the past week, starting Sunday. I...
by Michael Leppert | Jun 15, 2018 | Pop/Life, Sports
My first Father’s Day, as a father, was on June 18, 1995. We were at my sister’s house in Virginia for some reason that none of us can now recall, and Corey Pavin won the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York. The Open is back...
by Michael Leppert | May 25, 2018 | Politics/Government, Sports
As we head into one of our nation’s great national holiday weekends, the National Football League is at it again. On Tuesday, Roger Goodell, the NFL’s commissioner, announced that league owners had unanimously approved a new policy regarding players and...
