Picking up from last week: From Rumspeak to Sufferin’ Suffixes:
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Picking up from last week: From Naked/Nude through Rollout/Runup:
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Picking up from last week: Holy Macro! through Muscular:
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I’ve come to the conclusion that too many of my younger fellow citizens are reaching adulthood without benefit of the Sisters of Holy Cross—and I fear for their children, and their children’s children.
Read the Rest!Missing the Point II
Picking up from last week: Responses and Round Two. His response to my initial message, published last week.
Read the Rest!Missing the Point I
Prologue: I hadn’t intended to return to the subject of sport so soon, but the publication last week of the new book “exposing” Barry Bonds’ obvious use of performance-enhancing substances over time and the renewed media hoo-hah is too tempting.
Read the Rest!Olympians II
Picking up from last week, he earned and we learned: He was elected captain of his university’s men’s team three consecutive seasons, which has happened one other time or not at all there, in a track and field program that predates the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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God bless Joey Cheek for taking the nobility of success in competition up a notch with the nobility of charitable purpose. God bless Ted Ligety for making our “major” sports-addicted media dilettantes look like the buffoons they are.
Read the Rest!Why “They” Hate Us II
Picking up from last week, the rest of the “whys:” We profess family values but turn a blind eye to malnourished children and their sexually active siblings and parents the world over, if their religious beliefs don’t square with ours.
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