Things, Ideas & People . . .

Watching the Olympic trials the other night, we felt so fortunate that such an athlete in rapper Snoop Dogg, was available to provide the commentary at the steeplechase water jump.

As we kind of made fun of him, maybe we were wrong about his athletic abilities. He also ran an exhibition 200m run at 34.4. A long ways from great, but as he said, not bad for a 52 year-old. A far cry from Usain Bolts world record of 19.9 seconds in 2009.

While we still don’t care for his jive or entertainment much, we found he possibly has a little more substance to him besides being a very successful gangsta rapper. He was a standout in hi...