At times, I wonder why I started a blog. Was it to score with MILFS or bag a few young ladies looking for Daddy Dearest types? Was it the positive financial impact on my bank account's bottom line or am I blogging to provide the nation with a Sheridan stimulus package? Am I blogging to contribute to the nation's elevated discourse on "Jon and Kate Plus Eight" or did I reach for the keyboard to become a blogger/publishing dyamo/younger and more handsome version of Rupert Murdoch in a subversive attempt to undermine the mainstream media.   more »

For the last few weeks, I've put The Band's debut album "Music from Big Pink" on heavy rotation. Driving in the car I'm listening to it, working on the computer I've got its songs ringing through the house and watching a ballgame I have the sound muted, with The Band in the background, in my own nefarious attempt to waterboard my girlfriend with "Music from Big Pink." 

I can see the look of sheer desperation in her eyes, "We're listening to this again. Is this the only album he's loaded in the iPod?"

With the beard and the year long length of hair, I must be stuck in a West Saugerties, New York, state of mind.

Bob Dylan's gem, "I Shall Be Released" is one of my favorite songs off the "Music from Big Pink" album. This live version from Wilco and Fleet Foxes is a worthy addition to the ever increasing covers of this song. Helping out Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy, the Fleet Foxes show they can carry a tune.

Liner Notes

Jack Johnson does a tremendous version of "I Shall Be Released" on "Lost Highway - The Music of The Band." Another great cut from the "Lost Highway" collection is Lee Ann Womack's rendition of "The Weight", which even my girlfriend really likes.  

I cannot express enough how I loathe what is going on in the NBA, in regards to the officiating, and the league-wide mandates emanating from Commissioner David Stern's league office in Manhattan. Today the Orlando Magic were told that Dwight Howard's sixth technical, assessed in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, was rescinded after a review by the league. A seventh technical foul would have forced the Magic superstar to miss a future playoff game - another United Nations Security Council Resolution imposed by NBA Commissioner/Grand Poobah David Stern.   more »

When did all of the baseball games televised on Memorial Day disappear? Didn't ESPN used to show a whole slew of games on Memorial Day? For a sports fix, I resorted to watching the NCAA national championship in lacrosse, which I sometimes watch, but how about a little more of the national pastime?   more »

This is how a local Friday night newscast ended in Cleveland. After the sportscaster blows a gasket, check out the guy dancing in the background.

Friday night LeBron James moved a chapter closer to basketball immortality with a game-winning three-pointer that rocked Cleveland, shocked Orlando and evened the series at 1-1. With one second remaining on the NBA Game 2 Eastern Conference Finals timepiece, James waged hand-to-hand combat versus the Turkish Michael Jordan, Hedo Turkoglu, and managed to briefly get free for a three-pointer at the top of the circle. With Turkoglu's outstretched hands in his face, James received Mo Williams pass and launched his perfect parabola to stake a claim to be the rightful heir to Michael Jordan.    more »

This is from Lucinda Williams' 2008 release, "Little Honey", which is coincidentally Sheridan's Album of the Year for 2008. Lucinda closes the album with a great cover of AC/DC's rock anthem "It's A Long Way To The Top" that I now immediately associate with Jack Black's "School of Rock" and not Bon Scott and Angus Young. Hollywood is tricky like that.

Did you know Lucinda Williams' father, the poet Miller Williams, delivered the Inaugural Poem at Bill Clinton's second inauguration in 1997?

"Real Love" by Lucinda Williams

LeBron James is the baddest dude on the planet, but even 49 points couldn't carry the Cavs to a win versus the Orlando Magic in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. LeBron was great, but the rest of the team appeared to be playing under the influence of a food coma.   more »

President Obama versus former Vice President Dick Cheney is starting to rival The Thrilla in Manilla. Each man gave speeches today detailing what he views as the future of our national security, but only one of the two men is President of the United States.   more »

At the Washington Press Correspondents' Dinner, comedian Wanda Sykes offered that Rush Limbaugh should experience kidney failure and die. I'm not so sure I want to go so far as to have people die of organ failure, but I do understand Ms. Sykes's sentiments. How about constructing a large man-made island (Guantanamo?) where people who offend the Sheridan sensibilities would be sent for reprogramming or a daily dose of Sheridan? My girlfriend has volunteered for a daily dose of Sheridan, but why should others be excluded from my bon mots?    more »

Superman will meet kryptonite in human form and his name is LeBron James. The Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard is an immense talent blessed with nearly unparalleled physical gifts, but LeBron James is a once in a lifetime basketball player who is seeking to write the first chapter in the LeBron James legacy of championship basketball.   more »

In an old school NBA playoff donnybrook, the Nuggets take the series, but this is the sanitized NBA of 2009 where David Stern has eradicated the entrepreneurial services of squeegee men and made the NBA less physical than a water polo match between Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia.   more »

Manny Ramirez receiving a 50-game suspension from Major League Baseball for violating Major League Baseball's Performance Enhancing Drug policy is pausing me to rethink my religious views and the existence of god. Is Ramirez's suspension clear, undeniable proof that a higher power exists or perhaps it's a perfect example of the karma carousel of what goes around - comes around.   more »

Mexicans claim the swine flu was brought to their nation by a Canadian tourist. Dirty, Dirty Canada! As we all know, Mexico is a pristine country - I buy all of my bottled water and drugs from Mexico.   more »

The Rangers disagree with the suspension, but Tortorella gunned the water bottle into the crowd before he was doused in beer. The Don Johnson stubble wearing clown, Tortorella, instigated the incident with the fan. If Tortorella can't handle a heckler, he needs to get into a new line of work. The last time I looked, NBA coaches Phil Jackson and Greg Poppovich don't hurl water bottles and basketballs at hecklers behind the bench. (I'm sure Jackson and Pops have never been heckled.) As much as the NHL is attempting to enter the 21st century, it is this type of thuggish behavior that makes it the ugly red-headed stepchild of North American sports.    more »

At the end of Wednesday night's 2-1 win in Game 4, Avery took two moronic penalties that jeopardized the Rangers one goal margin. Tortorella's head looked as if it was going to slowly catch on fire from the smoke pouring out of his ears. Putting Ovechkin and company on the power play is analogous to putting Mike Tyson in a room with beauty pageant contestants - bad things are bound to happen.   more »

This is a perfect music video. If naked people with big pixielated blobs on their private parts make you squeamish, don't hit the play buttom.

Tonight the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers will meet again at Madison Square Garden, with the Rangers holding a 2-1 lead, in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series. The Capitals will attempt to even the series behind the hot goaltending of twenty-year-old Simon Varlamov. If Varlamov can withstand the tactics of New York's agitator extraordinaire and anger management graduate, Sean Avery, the Capitals have a shot tonight.   more »

If you live in Boston, your day of sports viewing may have started with the running of the 113th Boston Marathon, I decided to take a pass on the event. Don't we all know the drill by now - a man and a woman from the continent of Africa wins their respective race and Americans bemoan the lack of world class marathoners in the good ole U.S.A.   more »

It doesn't get much better than this. Temperatures are starting to occasionally reach 60, unless you live in Colorado where the threat of 43 inches of spring snow is not diminishing, the NBA and NHL playoffs are under way and major league baseball has returned. As a sports fan, it's hard to focus on what is important when there are so many viewing options. Was Saturday's spring football game at Alabama worth my time? No, but I did drop in for a visit to see if former Duke point guard Greg Paulus was going to take any snaps under center for the Crimson Tide.   more »