By Davin Colten
There were two big surprises this Thursday night while watching the long program in the men’s free skate finals. One, by having Evan Lysacek win gold without doing a quad. That is preposterous. …

Silly Wabitt..
The New Orleans Saints stunned the NFL on Super Bowl Sunday.
Saints fans everywhere could finally call themselves champions and remove their paper bags, Aints No More

As we all know, Gatorade has been fueling NFL players for 40 years and at Super Bowl XLIV Gatorade redefined the sideline to meet the athletes’ pre, during and post-game fueling needs. A new Gatorade cooler and sideline hydration system was unveiled during the Super Bowl

At the ripe young age of 22, Tim Tebow has already become a football legend. Being a two-time national champion and the first Heisman Trophy-winning sophomore, it’s no wonder he is the focus of many football enthusiasts far and wide.

Men’s college basketball is heating up, the Super Bowl is over and “who” might be lingering on retirement. All this in the latest edition from ESPN’s sports guru, Howie Schwab.

He might be one of the best players in the NHL, but Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings isn’t going to the Olympics.

We’ve talked about Tiger and his Gang of Nine to death.
Now we have something else to talk about.
Something which many of us knew and suspected for a long time.
Add Mark McGwire to the growing list of baseball players on the juice.

As I enter this new decade, I am surprised that I am looking and thinking about the future. For nearly all of the past decade, I literally withdrew from contact with friends of many years, having experienced an unexpected major setback whose ferocity sucked all of the usual resilience from my spirit. For that, I have paid a heavy price from which I may not fully recover.

My reawakening has been marked by hesitant and slow steps of outreach to those I abandoned by my failure to take charge of myself. Writing an occasional article is a part of my recovery process. I may never become the Grandma Moses of writing, but I still have a point of view on a lot of things, including, of course, the main focus of Femmefan: sports in most of its facets.

The Tiger episode has given me two different perspectives.
The first is this:
Tiger’s situation is, in some ways, a take-off of the Wizard of Oz.
He has created an imaginary wall of protection to protect himself from contact with the general masses. From behind that wall Tiger speaks.
Or does he? In reality, only a select few know anything about how or where Tiger is.

Growing old provides an occasional opportunity to reconnect with youngsters who are now adults with families and careers of their own. I’ve lucked out and have now reconnected with 2 such persons whose lives engaged mine decades ago.
The first was with Femmefan‘s creator (a story, perhaps, for another day), and the other with Josie Washington McQuay of the greater Philadelphia area.
Each followed a path of balancing the responsibilities of raising a family, maintaining a professional career and later found challenges and established new, but different, vistas for women in the arena of sports.

This week I am making my picks and leaving it at that because I want to tell you about New Orleans and the object of their affection, the Saints.
I though that by now the city and the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina would be restored and life would be normal again.
It is sad to say that in this great county of ours, with all the riches we possess and in spite of the hard work of many wonderful, humane and compassionate people, things are still not back to normal in New Orleans.
But, there is one positive in New Orleans, the love affair the City of New Orleans has with its team, the Saints.
The Saints did not reach the Super Bowl in 2006 and yet to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

Just when I thought that there were very few things that could occur within the NFL to make me love the league, its employees, and the fans even more; well, they have officially found a way to make me fall in love all over again.

Femmefan and I have been treated wonderfully by the San Francisco Forty Niners since the start of Femmefan.
Over the last nine years they have given me access to players, something typically reserved for the media big boys.
You know the ones, the media types that do this for a living.
It is a bit unusual to get player access when you are writing for a web site, and a female fan website at that.

In November of 2006 I conducted an interview with San Francisco Forty Niners fullback Moran Norris.
This link to that archived article is here.
Moran played for the Forty Niners in 2006 and 2007, paving the way, through his blocking, for two record setting seasons for Forty Niners running back, Frank Gore

I have to apologize to Erica and to my loyal readers. I received a copy of GAMEFACE before the Christmas Holiday and as with all good intentions, life, well, it got in the way.
So, finally, …