If you’re looking for one of the most important rules of sports journalism, it’s that you cannot be a fan. It’s why after being a sportswriter from 1978 through the first part of 1996, it was probably 15 years before I could really cheer — even inwardly — for the teams I grew up following. …
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What did the great men and women of the past have in common with each other that many of us lack? There are all sorts of possible answers, but the one of some significance here is that most of them spent at least part of their lives, part of their time, doing physical labor. Too …
“Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” Who would have thought legendary football coach Vince Lombardi would turn out to be one of the great villains of modern American history? Too much? Maybe, but Lombardi’s quote has been used to justify all sorts of bad behavior in the name of winning, and the fact is …
It’s sort of funny. I was never really a fan of the Georgia Bulldogs, particularly in football. But if I had stayed in Anderson, S.C., for the 1984 football season, I would have had the opportunity to cover the beat. I didn’t, though, and Anderson ended up being a nine-month stay that separated a year …
Paris may or may not be my favorite city in the world, but it’s definitely in the top five. In no particular order, I’d say Paris, London, Venice, San Francisco and New York. I have never lived in any of those cities, but I have visited all of them at least twice. Venice would be …
For all we can tell from the photo above, the massive crowd was attending a huge patriotic rally at the old Madison Square Garden in New York City. The figure in the center is a great American, George Washington, and the banners mention “FREE AMERICANS” and “CHRISTIAN AMERICA.” The second one starts to give away …
I called up my favorite search engine only to be annoyed. Google usually has some sort of picture or video link telling us what significance this particular date on the calendar has, and today was no exception. I was informed that today was Stephen Hawking’s 80th birthday. My first reaction was that I thought he …
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” Today is the one-year anniversary of the insurrection Donald Trump …
Men don’t leave. Back in February 1990, when I was getting near the end of my 18 months living and working in Reno, an interesting movie came out starring Jessica Lange. It was called “Men Don’t Leave,” and it didn’t do all that much business. It was definitely quirky. Lange played a woman who had …
“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance, it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” Can …
