Bill White

3 weeks ago | mcall.com | Bill White

I was having lunch with three golf buddies a few weeks ago, and one of the things we talked about, unflatteringly, was Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the mess they’re making of our country. A woman who had been sitting nearby with some of her friends got up, walked to our table, smiled and put four flag pins on our table. “I’m proud to be an American,” she told us. It was … weird. But it triggered an idea for me.

1 month ago | mcall.com | Bill White

One of my favorite meals back in my Lehigh University fraternity days was known as Train Wreck. It basically consisted of ground beef, tomato sauce and noodles. We ate mass quantities every time it was served. The fierce competition to get our share of seconds and thirds before we ran out is one reason I’m such a fast eater.

1 month ago | mcall.com | Bill White

I attended an event recently where I found myself sitting next to someone in my extended family. For some reason she began talking about the COVID-19 vaccine and how we were told it would prevent anyone from getting the disease, proof that once again our government was lying to us and we can’t trust anything they say. I don’t remember it that way. I politely pointed out that the vaccine was designed to make it less likely we would get COVID and that if we did, it would be less severe.

2 months ago | mcall.com | Bill White

The last time I offered a quiz on Philadelphia Eagles history, they won the Super Bowl. That’s reason enough to trot another quiz out today as the Birds prepare to face the Kansas City Chiefs. When it comes to sports, I’m seriously superstitious. Two years ago, I made the mistake of altering my lucky outfit at halftime of that Super Bowl matchup between the Eagles and Chiefs, and it cost them the game. I’ll make no such blunder tomorrow.

2 months ago | worldbaseball.com | Bill White |Louis Cardinals

About 8 minutes reading time. NEW YORK (AP) — Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died. He was 86. Vincent had undergone radiation and chemotherapy for bladder cancer and developed complications that included bleeding, said his wife, Christina.