The Yanks end the first half in just about the worst way imaginable...days after an assassination attempt and the world only knows what it wants to know...a disturbing recounting of a fatal car accident....re-living and re-writing history...

Scouting the team from The Sandlot....present day troubles for child stars...patriotism in music....Richard Marx v Foreigner v Styx...Crying on the pitch....yelling at Gleyber....the Lakers are no longer the Lakers.

And we're back after a week off...Summer baseball....MLB marketing...Yankee issues....playoff format issues...closer entrance music and the story behind Mariano's Enter Sandman. Recounting the US Open, Rory's legacy, Bryson's turnaround....Morton Downey Jr, WrestleMania V, Trash TV origins....

Blowouts...Bill Walton....The Grateful Dead...what the hell is going on on with Puff Daddy....buffers on the Epstein order....Vodkas...Yanks stay hot...the ballad of Gerald and Betty...French Open/Belmont/MLB hitting streaks to round off the week...

The Bears hope there's no such thing as a Hard Knocks curse....The Mavs roll and the Rangers let down the faithful....Congratulations, Josh Gibson.....making a roster in 1932....what are the parameters of the simulation we are definitely living in?....Rome wasn't built in a day, but how long did it take for it to fall? Have we seen the best championships of our lives? And as the Rangers fall, the Knicks catch some shrapnel.

Back from the Music City and catching up on a few things...a little travel log....The Knicks playoff run came to an end...a quick look at the conference finals...The Yankees' recent run and the looming Soto situation...the Moose! the new Shane Gillis show....Netflix is becoming cable.

The Knicks are on a roll, the Rangers are dominating...beeping at a red light...unhappy barbers....and complaining about the refs....

A lot of hoops, a little bit of hockey, the playoffs are in full swing...also bumper stickers, an h2o breakdown, and we have a 2nd baseman problem.

It's the 5th annual draft show...it's 94' in the Garden again and this time OJ can't interfere....a crowded night in sports to go along with the draft, Yanks, Knicks-6ers, hockey, Lakers...

We're so lucky to experience the sports calendar transition...the CBS lineup is solving all the crimes...John Sterling's retirement...emails.....kidney donor etiquette....