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On being a college sports fan: A waif’s journey
From SBNation.com Although I’m a moderately serious sports fan, and I’ve been associated with a good number of colleges and universities over the years, I’ve never attended a school with a big-time...
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Throwback Thursday: Boyhood summers spent managing big league baseball teams
Box cover for RGI’s Gil Hodges’ Pennant Fever (photo: DY) Late in my grade school years, I discovered a world of baseball board games that simulated the National Pastime through sophisticated play...
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Throwback Thursday: High school football benchwarmer
I’m in this photo, the very tanned kid with black hair in the 5th row. Some forty Augusts ago, I was sweating it out on a blazing hot northwest Indiana practice field, along with 60 or so other guys...
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Fall, fantasy football, and a song or two
Thursday night kicked off the NFL season, which for several million fans also meant the beginning of fantasy football. Somehow I find myself in three fantasy leagues this fall, which means that I’ll...
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Fighting Irish schmaltz: “Rudy” and “Knute Rockne All American”
When it comes to college football fandom, I’m not naturally rooted. My undergraduate alma mater, Valparaiso University, has a terrific mid-major basketball program, but for decades its football team...
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A view from the Garden
This 1940s wartime era photo prompts a nostalgic moment for me, even if I wasn’t around back then and my soggy sentiments have nothing to do with the picture itself. This is the old Madison Square...
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My late 20th century middlebrow center of gravity
Deliciously burning tops of mouths since 1974 (photo: Stouffers.com) Sometimes I like to scroll through this blog for the fun of it, as if I’m walking down Memory Lane to revisit writings about Memory...
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Pats win! (And other notes about sports fandom in Boston)
Banner up — my school is on Boston’s championship parade route (photo: DY) Although I’ve been living in Boston since 1994, this city is not my first love when it comes to pro sports devotion. I grew up...
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Pandemic Chronicles #5: Sports-inspired nostalgia
L to R: Players Steve Kerr, Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman, coach Phil Jackson I know I’m hardly alone in spending more time watching television during this public health crisis. As I...
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Pandemic Chronicles #15: Let’s get through this bleak midwinter
Recent snowfall viewed thru my kitchen window, Jamaica Plain, Boston Here in the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic continues at a brutal pace, as we await larger distributions of vaccines that will help...
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