A person's choice of hat can fuel endless debates at the intersection of fashion and function. When Mike McCoy arrived to coach the Chargers few took notice of his preferred head gear. McCoy is unapologetically a sun visor guy. He wears a team visor day or night, rain or shine. This puts him squarely in the camp of other sideline swamis like Lane Kiffin, Dennis Allen, Chip Kelly, and Josh McDaniels who exist in that nebulous zone of not caring to style their hair (see the Mik

Growing up in Kalamata sandlot football was just that; “American football” on a sand lot. The hot arid climate, prone to long dry spells made grass hard to come by. To be precise, we were tossing the pigskin on gravel; the kind of tiny rocks dressing the hardened dirt that would cling to your scabs and scrapes like bees to glass coke bottles.  Often a curious crowd would gather in wonder, like they were seeing the ghost of St Nektarios. For most, the tattered football that co

Can we talk about dogs? Everyone always speaks of a competitive, resilient, tough athlete as "having that dog in them."  Nobody has ever said, "He's got that cat in him." Which is a real shame because cats are really one of the best things about living. They cuddle, they play, they knead biscuits, they talk, they scrap, they don't need anyone to take them to the bathroom, and they clean themselves! I haven't even mentioned how cute they are. In Greece we have colonies of fera

Photo Image by Chris Sorrell "Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it,” -Aristotle.  Theia Mary used to say "the hungry man dreams of loaves." She was the baker in the family. From artisanal village bread, to succulent pastichio, crispy spanakopita, luscious baklava and gluttonous galaktoboureko; she could do it all. Her creations were the envy of lesser homemakers and the lust of listless men.