Dave McKenna

4 days ago | goworldtravel.com | Dave McKenna

Can you see Vietnam’s vast collection of curiosities, sights and delights in just three weeks? In short…no…you can’t. But as I’ve recently found out, you can certainly get a taste of this vibrant slice of South East Asia in 21 days. So if it’s financially viable for you and you’re after an Asian adventure, I’d urge you to do so. I must add at this point, it probably wasn’t financially viable for me. I sold my car to finance this trip; that’s what winter in England will do to a man.

1 week ago | defector.com | Dave McKenna

Rick Derringer, a rock and roll lifer, a force behind the “rock 'n wrestling” melding of the 1980s and other sporting and music nexuses, is dead. Derringer died Monday in Ormond Beach, Fla. No official cause of death was released, but a family member said he'd been suffering from complications from heart surgery earlier this year. He was 77. Derringer’s rock-jock bona fides date back to his being a member of the midwestern band The McCoys as a 16-year-old.

2 weeks ago | defector.com | Dave McKenna

The most embarrassing of athletic debates is over: As of midnight last night, camogie players are free to sport the bottoms of their choosing. At an emergency meeting of the Camogie Association held last night in Dublin to quell increasingly loud protests, delegates repealed an antiquated rule that prohibited players of the ancient Gaelic game from wearing shorts, as their male counterparts always could.

2 weeks ago | defector.com | Dave McKenna

Irish sporting authorities are now having a serious debate about one of the most anachronistic and misogynistic (though not necessarily in that order) rules in all of athletics. Later this week, a dumbass mandate that camogie players must play in a skirt might finally be tossed.

2 weeks ago | defector.com | Dave McKenna

Horse racing has been on death watch forever. But the sport’s future has never been more up in the air than it was heading into this year’s Preakness Stakes. The lead storyline before the race was the state of Pimlico, a Baltimore race track that’s been open since 1870 and has hosted the Preakness for more than 150 years, but has gone completely to hell. The track closes after this weekend, and the whole compound is scheduled to be demolished by the state.