Tag Archive: Sports

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 21

What Is This? Every Monday, I document the happenings of the past week. The original (and still primary) intent is to track my progress in meeting my writing goals. Increasingly, I’ve been discussing more than just writing. For example, I’m a sports nut, so occasionally I’ll throw in a sports tidbit. I may talk about World ...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: April 9

What Is This? Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, ...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: April 2

What Is This? Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category ...

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O, Canada!

If I weren't an American, I'd want to be a Canadian. I used to think I'd want to be an Aussie, or a Kiwi. But the past fortnight has brought home to me just what wonderful neighbors we have to the north. I've been privileged to count Canadians among my friends for many years; I'm ...

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Some Observations on the New NFL Season

Television Coverage FIRE JOE BUCK. He's not a great baseball announcer, but he's worse at football. I realize I may be the only person in the country who feels this way: A Twitter search for #firejoebuck came back empty. Troy Aikman, on the other ...

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The State of the Kestrel and of the Aerie

About 5 minutes ago, I tweeted, "I *want* to write, but I have nothing to write *about.* At least, nothing that anyone but me would want to read. Meh." About 3 minutes ago, I was reading Darren Rowse's latest update at ProBlogger. While my blogging empire isn't as expansive ...

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The Masters

Almost every golf fan in the world recognizes the photo above. It’s the famous Ben Hogan Bridge, crossing Rae’s Creek from the 12th fairway to the 12th green ...

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Talkin’ Baseball: A New Poll, and Some Memories

It's that time again: Playoff Baseball! And as you may have gathered from the preceding article, cut me and I bleed Dodger Blue. My first memories of our National Pastime date from 1958, when the Dodgers moved to Los ...

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