Mixed Blessings

Birds Not Of A Feather, Battling Caffeines, Spams Du Jour, Etc.

Let us now praise famous sportscasters who turn out to have unsavory pastimes we’d been unaware of all this time. There’s certainly nothing admirable about the violent actions to which Marv Albert has plea-bargained, let alone the rest of what he was accused of doing. But in this hyper-confessional age, when people seemingly can’t wait to write a book or chat with Sally Jessy about their dysfunctions, there’s something almost refreshing about a public figure who manages to keep his peculiarities a secret for any length of time.