So, the last couple of Views from the Nose Bleeds have been more reflective than they usually are. There is a reason for it. This coming Wednesday will be my final day with the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, as I have accepted another job in Boone County. The near past four and a half years have been a blast to live in Storm Lake, covering these six high schools and Buena Vista University...

The images of the past week will live on forever. The innocent lives lost for no reason, the buildings burning and those in my profession being attacked. It angers me and it saddens me to see all of this death, destruction, and chaos. All of this got me thinking back to one name. A man who took a stand around all of the injustice that he saw around him...

With the end of ESPN’s The Last Dance, the spotlight has been put on the greatest basketball player of all time once again. No, not Brian Scalabrine, but Michael Jordan. If you got the joke, you’re awesome, and if you didn’t, do research on why it’s a great joke. Still, the 10-part documentary shed new light on Jordan during his final season on the Chicago Bulls...

So hopefully you read the first Views this week where I discussed the winners and losers from the first round of the NFL draft. Today is a continuation of that with who won, and lost, the second and third day of the draft. I did watch all of the draft on Friday night, only checking in a few times on Saturday because who has time to watch seven more hours of the NFL draft...

Thursday night, I’m sitting on the couch with a nice Mello Yello beside me and it’s finally time for something new with sports, the NFL draft. Thursday night was what I needed or so I thought. While I enjoyed the draft, it just felt off, and I know why...

Hey, the NFL draft is soon. Like right around the corner soon. In a world without sports, this is going to have to be a substitute for a while. While all 32 teams have a first round pick in theory, in practice that isn’t the case. Some traded them away for players, like the Bears did a couple of years ago, and others for picks in previous years. You know why you’re reading, though, and I won’t waste any more time...

I have said it before, and, for those who missed the first 200 times I’ve said it - basketball is my favorite sport. While the NFL draft is coming up, and I will be doing a first round mock draft in a coming issue, perhaps an online-only special due to its length, today it’s all about basketball...

Sports are a wonderful thing, mostly. I say “mostly” because there are some sports which are a bit hard to comprehend without putting the time in to learn the game, looking at you cricket. Regardless of what sport is your favorite, which ones you enjoy and even those you despise, they all have one thing in common; one small, or giant, thing that binds two groups of people together...

Look, we all have a lot more free time right now. With nothing to really watch on TV, no places to visit or people to hang out with, this free time should be used to expand the mind. How does someone expand their mind? By picking up a book and investing this free time to read more. Since I am a sports guy, I love sports books. Most of my books are about sports or else I gravitate toward Batman comics...

Despite the lack of live sports to feast upon during our self-imposed, or state government, quaratines, there has still been some excitement in the sports world. The National Football League has given us some good talking points, at least for a few days, regarding free agency and some of the moves from the 32 franchises...

Look, I think we all miss basketball right now. This is supposed to be the time for the NCAA tournament, and to a lesser extent, the NIT and other lower-level tournaments which give a team a chance at post season basketball. Instead, we’re left to wonder who would win this year’s ultimate crown. Maybe soon there will be a hypothetical NCAA tournament, but today it’s about the silver screen and the best basketball movies...

You know what, I’ll just flat out say it, not having any live sports right now stinks. There’s nothing to go cover, nothing to take photographs of and nothing to live tweet. Unless anyone wants to see live tweeting of a Counter Strike: GO (video game, by the way). I doubt there’s a long list for that one...

Look, I’m never for putting all my eggs in a basket or any other old hokey saying about getting ahead of one’s self. I hate the idea of it, and usually I never do it, but this year, this year feels just a bit different. With the girls State Basketball tournament on the horizon, it’s time to think about the reality that the Newell-Fonda girls basketball team is really going on a legendary tear...

This is something that has began to wear thin on me through this basketball season. The games themselves have been fun to watch, for the most part, and there have been great plays made by our area athletes on the hardwood. However, despite their good play this year, there has been a fair amount of bad play, and it hasn’t been made by the players. ...

It was a typical Sunday afternoon at the sports desk at the Pilot Tribune. Going through emails, listening to coaching comments on the recording app on the smartphone and occasionally looking at social media to see if anything interesting is happening with the Pro Bowl. ...

Less than a week away until one of the biggest football games of the year, maybe even the biggest depending on how you feel about college or high school, and for once the two best teams are maybe even in the big game. February 2 is the day and the time is 5:30 p.m. ...

Today’s college athletes seem better than they were when I was growing up. The ability that they show seems more breathtaking than when watching as a young boy. However, growing up, there wasn’t too much of a kid leaving a college for a different one. ...

Usually, I dislike doing recap style of columns. It makes me feel like I’ll give out a hot take and get on the level of a sports troll like Skip Bayless or Colin Cowherd, but this weekend was insane. Friday night had some crazy moments, Saturday was indescribable, and Sunday saw its fair share of news...

Hey, it’s September already. Where did the time fly off to? Seems like just yesterday it was that dead period of the year with nothing but preseason football to watch for two minutes before turning it off to do something else. But, now that it is September, the pigskin season is in full effect with high school, college and professional taking up our Friday night, Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights...

If you’re anything like me, and that’s probably a bad thing, you may have been watching college football this past Saturday night. Watching Miami and Florida trade bad decisions like a couple of college kids at a keg party, something popped up on the scroll that made me do a spit take… nearly. I had to see it a second time, then a third, before jumping on Twitter to see if someone got hacked or someone trusted a fake account...