The sports editor has a couple of goals with this week’s column.
I want to make you hungry, and I hope the same thing happens to me.
It ceases to amaze me the number of former professional athletes who, after their playing days are over, enter the restaurant business or general food industry.
Some athletes don’t have a hands-on approach, but allow the use of their name for a restaurant.
Let’s start off with one of everybody’s favorite people: Former Texas Ranger and Houston Astro pitcher Nolan Ryan.
Ryan assures consumers a line of beef from cattle raised exclusively on a grass-fed diet, “never with any added hormones, antibiotics, artificial ingredients or preservatives.”
Cattle comes from United States ranchers.
According to Ryan’s website, nolanryanbeef.com, beef from grass-fed cattle is higher in Vitamin A, Vitamin E and a better balance of Omega fatty acids.
Some of the products Ryan offers are hickory smoked beef franks, fully-cooked all-natural beef patties and sliders, beef sausage and hot links. Read the entire column in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.

Sports editor Eric Viccaro. (News photo by Ryan Evans)