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Did you hear the one about the major sports franchise that refused to play the Star-Spangled Banner before games and the furor that ensued? Chances are,…
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For most of the 20th century, the Sporting News was the bible of baseball, the publication where fans went to get player and manager quotes, box scores…
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For the last few years now, the political right in this country has reveled in the slogans “shut up and dribble” or “stick to sports” with those terms…
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It seems incongruous, bordering on ridiculous now in the days just past his death last Friday to say that Henry Aaron was underrated.How could a man who…
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At the end of a relationship, it’s typical for one or both parties to take stock, to dust oneself off, as it were, and try to figure out what went wrong…
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The last nine months or so have been marked with upheaval and a search for what’s familiar and what’s continual. Well, in these troubling times, isn’t it…
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I want to start 2021 with a confession: I play the lottery.Now, this isn’t an everyday thing. I don’t jeopardize my retirement or anyone’s college fund…
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It’s customary, at the end of a year, for wags and pundits to sum up the previous 12 months in a crude context, by naming those whose reputations have…
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There’s very little that many of us will take from this dumpster fire of a year. Most people I know have already purchased a calendar for 2021 in joyous…
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In Washington, a handful of legislators are preparing to say goodbye to public life in the lame duck session of Congress.Some will make farewell speeches.…