By Steve McKay: Is it just my imagination, or are our local athletic fields summoning us to come visit them? I know, odd question. More on that later. So, how’s your “new normal” going these days? I don’t know of anyone who isn’t living through a major routine shift compared to what we were doing […]
By Steve McKay. So, how are these “strange days” going for you? The social distancing commandments coming from on high have obviously altered the manner in which businesses are operating, if they are even operating at all. This is certainly the case for sports-talk radio, which has been stripped of virtually all of its content. […]
Fill-in the blank: This winter season has been ______________. My word? Unsatisfying. Your word may be different than mine, depending on your opinion of winter. To me, winter in Maine is all about snow. Ample snowfall for skiers, snowmobilers, snow-shoe types and the like. Yet so far, our winter of 2019-2020 has been quite wimpy […]
“I never had a conversation with Bill that was anything but positive, encouraging, and uplifting,” said longtime co-worker Steve McKay.
Forty something years ago (gulp!) yours truly was “cutting cups” at Penobby. What does cutting cups mean, and where is Penobby? Well first, cutting cups refers to cutting into a golf green with a special tool that digs a round hole for the cup to be placed in. You know that thing the flag sticks […]
By Steve McKay- SportsChowdah.com. “I need a hero….I’m holding out for a hero ’til the end of the night…” Do these lyrics ring a bell? Step into the time machine with me; we’ll set the dial back 35 years, and step into 1984 together. Ghostbusters, the Karate Kid, Indiana Jones, and Beverly Hills Cop are […]
By Steve McKay- SportsChowdah.com. If you’ve read a few of my columns over the last year or so, you’ve likely noticed I tend to drone-on about my grandkids a bit. That’s right….I have grandchildren (this is where you remark “Gee, you don’t look old enough to have grandkids, Steve!” Crickets chirping…) Of course, I love […]
By Steve Mckay- Sports Chowdah. “That really gets my goat!” Odd expression, isn’t it? According to my friend Mr. Google, this phrase has its roots in horse racing. Tradition has it that when a goat is placed in a horse stall before a race, it helps calm, or settle the horse down. Remove the goat? […]
By Steve McKay- Sports Chowdah. Are you a “stop and smell the roses” kind of human? I like to think I am, yet I’m not sure I can provide much evidence of that. Like you, I’ve got a lot of “stuff” going on that fills each day to the brim. Sometimes we need a potent […]
By: Steve McKay-Sports Chowdah. As we slide into the merry month of June, I find myself in despair as a landscaper. No, I am certainly not a pro landscape artist with elaborate lawn maintenance tools at my disposal, but I do enjoy maintaining a green, trimmed-up stretch of grass at the McKay abode. Some of […]
