Category Archives: Sports

SOUTHBOUND by Peter Nolan Smith

March 24, 2025 – 4:43 am

From 2013 Last week Vladmar announced that he was heading to Florida. The Pittsburgh native never been there before. 2013 had been a hard winter. “I can’t believe that I’m fifty years old and have never to the Holy Land.” The Sunshine State was special, but even more so back in the last century. “My […]

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BET ON CRAZY / Betting Super Bowl XXIV

February 1, 2025 – 2:28 am

For years Richie Boy and I bet the Super Bowl according to the Manny Principle, which was that Manny had never beaten the spread for the NFL’s final game. Accordingly we always bet the other way. In 1996 the championship game matched the Dallas Cowboys against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Tempe, Arizona. All week Googs, […]

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Pin Ball At the Nursery – 1977

November 26, 2024 – 3:27 pm

how Sharon Mitchell and I became friends pinball at the Nursery 1977.

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GASLIGHT PINBALL by Peter Nolan Smith

November 26, 2024 – 2:27 am

Pinball was banned as a game of chance in New York City throughout most of the 20th Century. In 1976 a pinball wizard proved the contrary to a courtroom by calling out his shots to the amazed judges. The ace later acknowledged that his called shot was pure luck, however pinball machines once more populated […]

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Montauk Train # 19

October 27, 2024 – 7:22 pm

Amagansett Empty golf course Fourteen minutes From Montauk___ I have never played a round of golf Though once Back in the last century Queen’s Park London 1997 With friends Nina, Ingi and others The Persian, Maid Marion, Frank, maybe Fingers Maybe others___ On beautiful September afternoon Queen’s Park Nine holes___ Who won? No one cared […]

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