It used to be that all you needed to enjoy football season was a working television set, a comfortable couch and some tasty snack food. But times have changed. Here are five must-haves for the true football fan - you'll wonder how you ever got by without them!

Must-have No. 1 - High-speed wireless Internet
Because just watching the game isn't enough for die-hard fans. If you need to know the game inside and out, you need high-speed Internet access for the latest stats and game results. You can keep track of what the experts are saying before, during and after every game. You can also watch replays and scan injury lists. You will become a master of football minutia.  read more »

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Who wasn't hoping to see an aching Andre Agassi ace a few and make another round at the U.S. Open? Well, me for one. Initially I was rooting for the 36-year-old tennis icon. For two glorious rounds Andre thumbed his nose at Father Time. It looked like the former champ was proving that 30-something is the new 20-something. He even knocked off a kid too young to ever have seen a wooden racket. I owned one back when the earth was still cooling.

So, I joined the chorus pulling for Andre. "Go old guy! Go old guy!" I yelled, accompanied with a little dance. Suddenly with my arms torqued to the right and my lumbar region twisted to the left, my vertebrae tore faster than a Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. I couldn't stand up straight... or crooked. It wasn't like I had been pulling off some impossible return of service or a big top spin lob or even reaching for a dropped pen. I couldn't move. Of course, a stadium filled with screaming performance-enhancing fans wasn't pumping me up. I had no entourage whisking me to a specialist armed with a nauseatingly long needle filled with pain relief. Nope. Like most mere mortals with a miserable spine, I got an ice pack and my doctor's answering service. It was then that I realized this 30-ish tennis legend was making a poor example. If Andre could make it through two rounds of the U.S. Open at his age with a bad back, what might people expect of my body and me?  read more »

• by Stephanie Becker
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