sports | sports
Jun.16.2010
In the wake of college sports realignment fiasco, NCCA steps in with a solution.
http://bit.ly/9aUaO5
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Apr.30.2010
The television screen was filled with the image of Lebron James, the great basketball player, in a press conference. The caption read, “Lebron on His Elbow.” It happened that Lebron was leaning on his elbow, but that aside, the mood of the proceedings were somber. Lebron was injured, and this fact...
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Apr.18.2010
At the SCBWI-LA Conference last August, many authors and illustrators talked about lacking ideas and then ! having the Light Bulb go on over their heads.
Before I went to the conference, the light bulb over my head burned out. Not the metaphorical light bulb. The one in my kitchen.
A few days...
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Mar.06.2010
Dear Canada. Way to go, you hosers. Did yourself proud and put on one heck of an Olympics. Congratulations for providing an incredible seventeen days of thrills and spills on the ice and snow and in the slush and fog. That was a winter games for the ages, except for that excruciatingly obvious lack...
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Feb.12.2010
I'll be watching the Opening Ceremonies tonight with extra pride. Two of my former students, Zach Parise and Ryan Malone, will be in the parade of athletes -- both as member of the US Hockey Team. Imagining what that experience will be like for them brought back memories of my own Olympic...
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Feb.07.2010
1.As a competitive swimmer of the river of consciousnessI never understood the idea of a false start.What do you mean I have to wait to compete?!2.But now that I don’t compete I get it:I have to synchronize firstBefore I competitively get out of synch.3.Here’s what I like about team sports:You got...
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Feb.05.2010
Maddened by an overdose of media hype about the SuperBowl and the Olympics, I bitch in my latest OpenBook blog about why sports gets so much more attention and funding than culture.
http://www.openbooktoronto.com
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Jan.27.2010
HAIL ANDY MURRAY, KING OF GROUNDSTROKES!
By King Macbeth, Special Correspondent for the Dunsinane Times
Scottish fans are on the edge of their seats at this year’s Australian Open. Why? Because our own Andy Murray is The Man! I had the pleasure of watching him un-man the so-called manly Rafael...
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Jan.25.2010
No one remembers exactly how it started. My best guess is that my friend George, a diehard sports fan, spouted some inanity about his favorite team and I responded with a feisty “wanna bet?” The race was on.
The result is that for the last twenty years or so, George and I have bet on every...
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Jan.02.2010
“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.”
— Jim Murray (1919-1998), sportswriter and 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner
“Life is a ballgame, but you’ve...
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