As a former Andy Frain usher, there was nothing worse than rain delays. If it rains in football, they keep on playing. If the same thing happens in soccer, unless it’s a torrential downpour, they keep playing. In hockey and basketball, most of the games are indoors, so the weather is a moot point. But […]

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2016 has been a monster to too many cultural icons: Parliament/Funkadelic’s keyboardist supreme Bernie Worrell, Anton Yelchin, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, Paul Kantner, Bowie, Prince. We lost Abe Vigoda and Alan Rickman Away from music, we of course had Muhammad Ali and Gordie Howe barely days apart. Well, this morning we lost two more sports […]

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I get it. I do. The world is changing and you can’t get off. The old are frightened and want to retain what’s left of a world that they understand. Never mind that that world was 1) racist; 2) sexist, and: 3) never existed except through the lens of dewy-eyed fake nostalgia. Moreover, no one […]

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When I read about this, I couldn’t help but think about the old National Lampoon cover with the butch looking female athlete with a medal and a bulge in the crotch of the shorts. That cover of course poked fun at the East Germans whose cheating in the 1970s and 1980s was historic, but nothing […]

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With his death, one thing comes to mind – I have never not known Muhammad Ali. He won the light heavyweight Olympic Gold Medal in 1960 – I was 8 months old. I can’t say I knew who he was then, but I can’t say when I didn’t know who he was. Boxing back then […]

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Last week, the Indignant Children participated in the local rink’s annual Ice Show. It allows all of the children enrolled in the various ice skating classes the opportunity to dress up and show off their skills before family members and friends. It is a good show and everyone does seem to enjoy it, but I […]

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Facing a deadline yesterday in which to appeal the 2nd Circuit Court’s opinion that upheld New England Patriots’ Quarterback Tom Brady’s four game suspension from the NFL in the Deflategate scandal. Brady filed an appeal Monday for a second hearing by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the first review was a 2-1 decision […]

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