Today would have been Curt Flood’s 80th Birthday, but he died from cancer over two decades ago at essentially my current age. To honor my boyhood hero, one of the best baseball players I ever saw, and a man of great principle and intellect on the anniversary of his birthday, I reprint a story I…
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For those who can use a break from massive hurricanes, devastating earthquakes, and threats of complete nuclear annihilation, I take on the considerably lighter issue of the sports dynasty. The term sports “dynasty” presumably derives from the powerful empires that have ruled the world for long stretches of time, often with more than a touch of ruthlessness. Some of the biggies have included the Russian Empire that lasted…
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Happy July 4th- the day we celebrate our independence from that brutal regime across the Atlantic that had the audacity to tax us and take away our guns! Undeterred by these developments, England proudly holds it’s biggest and most prestigious sporting event at this time every year: The Wimbledon Tennis Championships. So let’s talk one…
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