Mike Gruss

Mike Gruss is the lifestyle columnist for The Virginian-Pilot. His columns appear every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in The Daily Break section. Read it in print or in ePilot.

How To Open A Sports Bar

If I were opening a sports bar today in this area, which I'm not, but would likely enjoy frequenting, I'd make it a Panthers bar. Or a Jaguars bar. I'm not a fan of either team, or even the Redskins. (Although the all-Redskins radio station has got me hooked.) But this new survey finds there are a disproportionate and unexpected number of Jags and Panthers fans in Norfolk. It's probably due to proximity and the military. But still, interesting. I wonder what the baseball equivalents would be.

Here's what it's like to live through a pretty-mile nor'easter. It was today's column.

I'd really like for my backyard to look like a stadium. Not an actual stadium, just with mowing patterns. This guy, who comes up with mowing designs for ballparks, makes me feel like I still have lot to do.

Do you follow Doonesbury? Yes, even fictional newspapers are dying. Sounds like Rick needs to login in to his comics version of  LinkedIn. Or take a class in PHP. Something.

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Radio Dribble

Nice to hear that HR now has TWO sports talk radio stations. Tony the blow hard gets old after a few minutes. There is life outside of the worlds of High School Football and the Lady Monarchs.
Another reason to have Sirius!

Nice Call on Radio

Isn't 102.1 FM a great option for folks in Hampton Roads? Finally, Tony Mercurio has competition!!! There's no way he can continue proclaiming himself "Sportscaster of the Year" for much longer.

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