Random musings for a winter Sunday afternoon: In a world of rapidly increasing weather disasters, it seems somehow silly to complain about the weather here, south of Atlatna, today. It isn’t a monsoon, a blizzard or a hurricane. The temperature isn’t 20 below zero and there are no tornados or tsunamis. It’s 35 degrees out …
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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“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 …
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 …
Ah, the indignities of aging. It was more than 11 years ago and on the other side of the country when I had my first colonoscopy. I had suffered from a small amount of bleeding in a place humans aren’t supposed to bleed, and I had turned 60. Those were two pretty good reasons, and …
666,141 822,432, Two interesting numbers. Try to guess what they represent. If you follow the news, you might have a clue that the second one is the most recent total of the number of Americans who have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic two years ago. The first one isn’t as easy, …
“Sous les paves, la plage …” When my wife and I talk about 1968, it becomes apparent very quickly that what happened in France was far more significant than what happened here. I’m not talking about historical events. The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy had a horrible, long-lasting effect on our country, …
I’m not sure why things sort of pop into my mind from time to time, but they do. I first saw “Peggy Sue Got Married” in Denver in October 1986, and while I have seen it numerous times since then, one particular exchange came to mind today. Peggy Sue finds herself 25 years in the …
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