By the time you read this, two major sporting events of 2022 will be in the books. The first would be the Super Bowl, won by the LA Rams, which proved to be one of the better Super Bowls of all time. It looked as if Cincinnati was on the way to victory up until the last minute and a half. After the Rams scored it seemed that the Bengals were on their way to force … [Read more...]
Plenty of spots to watch the Big Game in Sparks
So much has happened in this season’s NFL…Tom Brady announced his retirement, the Los Angeles Rams are playing NFL’s biggest event on their home field after beating the 49ers in the NFC Championship, and the last time the Cincinnati Bengals vied for the Lombardi Trophy was back in 1989. With a West Coast team playing the Big Game on West Coast turf, you can imagine that there … [Read more...]
Super Bowl memories
Without a doubt, this year’s Super Bowl game was the most thrilling of all time. Having watched some 50 telecasts of the premier football event, I thought that the top one was the unbelievable win of the Patriots over the Seahawks a couple of years ago. That game, though it was watched by the largest TV audience in American TV history, gathered 114.4 million viewers according … [Read more...]
Kate Smith & Lady Gaga
When Lady Gaga opened her Super Bowl halftime extravaganza with Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,” I got up to make a sandwich. The New York City Italiana superstar, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, had no idea of the pain that song evoked in my family. My father arrived at Ellis Island from Italy a few years after Berlin who “was put in a pen with his brother … [Read more...]