I've been on the road again, this week I was in Vermont with Rack Star Liz Ford. The day started when Liz picked me up from the airport, except she says it's just called the Post Office. She's a real nice lady. I could smell other pets on her but while I was with her she made me feel like I was the only one... First stop, Liz's office. Liz is a professional pool player and owns a pool league called the Green Mountain APA. Liz has a super-sweet pool table. She said normally nobody should sit on a…

In my second stop on the Rack Starz tour, I got to hang with my pal Borana Andoni.  As some of you know, this isn't the first time I've spent some time with Borana.  We got to know each other back in November 2010 during the WPBA Amateur Nationals, which, thanks to a pillow fight with Borana, Samm and Gail was quite a memorable night. Borana decided to do the write up on our Christmas adventures, so without further delay, I present Rack Starz Tour Stop #2: Frank the PoolDawg spent one whole…

Ahhh, its been a busy time since I got back from the Mosconi Cup.  Right after getting back, it was off to upstate NY to hang with Rack Star and WPBA pro Jennifer Barretta at Turning Stone.  Since it takes me forever to write anything, I asked Jenn to help me out.  Here's the recap J-Bar style: My best experience so far as a Rack Star was not the calendar photo shoot, or the Amsterdam Billiards launch party, or even being interviewed by various magazines and websites. It was getting to spend…

Being the official mascot of PoolDawg does have its perks.  Every now and again, I get in to places I really have no business being at.  This year's Mosconi Cup was a prime example.  First, I managed to get on the players table to hang out and watch the matches.  I spent the entire second day of the event watching Johnny Archer, Shane Van Boening, Shawn Putnam, Mike Dechaine and Rodney Morris go toe to toe with the Euros. Day one was pretty rough, with the US team digging itself into a 1-4…

Brewers? Dodgers?  Pshh... please.  Keven can keep his brew crew and I've seen better trolley dodgers up in San Francisco than Feiman's beloved boys from La La land.  For my money, it's all about the Marlins. I understand that the Marlins don't have many fans, but after I saw this picture of their new manager Ozzie Guillen with his bulldog DH, I was hooked. Any guy who's willing to plant a wet one on a mug like that is good in my book.  So this spring,…

I've gotta tell you, being a mascot is the life.  It gets a little boring during the slow months, but then there are weekends like this past one that make it all worth while.  See, while the PoolDawg team was sitting in Colorado freezing their respective posteriors off, I was kickin' it in the NYC with Gail Glazebrook, Jennifer Barretta and the entire  Rack Starz gang (sans Olga Gashkova, who seems to have taken up permanent residence back in the Ukraine. The trip to New York wasn't exactly…