In case you’re joining us without having read last week’s column, or in case last week’s column has suffered the fate of last week’s emails and is buried under a…
I have found that I have a bad habit of assuming permanence for temporary situations. For instance, when a day is boring, I trick myself into thinking every subsequent day…
Tuesday night, the Dodgers took down the Rays to win their first World Series since 1988. The season is over. Now what? Athletics in the Great American Conference are still…
Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.” Whew, Rachel’s…
As the general election inches closer, so does the tension within our country and within our communities. It seems as if the worst in humanity can be on display during…
We are in a global pandemic. I really want to remember that and tell myself daily that this is not normal, as I have emphasized before. This is not normal,…
Today’s column takes care of some unfinished pandemic business. Last March, as I drove home to Georgia for Spring Break, I composed part of this article in my head. Since…
Well, here we are. Against all odds, we made it. It’s time for the World Series. When commissioner Rob Manfred shortened the baseball season, people questioned whether or not we’d…
I think every athlete can agree that this season has been nothing but strange. We have had to adjust to this new season, make lots of changes to the practice…
One of the earliest memories of sports that I have was Super Bowl XL, where the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks. The only thing I remember from that night…