Dear Universe, Thank you for last week’s Thanksgiving holiday. You have really outdone yourself this time; there’s no other way to put it. Before the hurly-burly of December begins, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude. Can we level-set? Halley’s Comet is […]

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Autumn is the most glorious time of year. The season, like a beautiful woman who ages gracefully and unapologetically, unlocks an even greater loveliness within. It’s the hint of melancholy that makes fall so precious, not because, as Robert Frost said, nothing gold can stay. […]

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When Tom Brady left New England after 20 years to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, many of us found out we weren’t Patriots fans, we were Brady fans. We couldn’t help checking the Bucs box score each week, and suddenly, Bill Belichick’s cutoff hoodie […]

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Two close friends, Greg and Michael, lost their fathers earlier this summer. I never met either of their dads, but I know they were good men from the sons they raised. Both fathers, gifted athletes in their own right, were avid supporters of youth sports […]

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A lot of people think baseball is boring. I get that. Baseball is different than any other sport. It can be agonizingly slow, accentuated by heartstopping moments of pure joy, heartbreaking losses, and near misses. You can get muddled up in the slow part. Baseball […]

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For more than two decades in the 1990s and 2000s, Derek Jeter was a linchpin of the New York Yankees’ renaissance. Now, ESPN is giving his career the documentary treatment, examining the larger-than-life figure behind the Bronx Bombers’ resurgence with a seven-part series entitled “The […]

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On the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law intended to give preferences to female sports in college, Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. featured a rally to keep female sports female. Radical feminists, conservative activists, and Democratic political figures shared the stage with athletes, parents, […]

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I spent eight years swimming competitively, getting up at the crack of dawn and swimming for miles every day. During those years, swimming was my life. My younger sisters continue to carry the torch today and are reaching heights in swimming I never would have […]

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