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Baseball chatter, on the field and out of the dugout, has been a staple of the game for over a century. Back in the day, it was innovative if not...

Sunday Morning Coffee — September 11, 2022 — “…There’s A Damn Elephant On Our Porch!”

Sometimes you’re wrong; sometimes you’re right. I was wrong to bet the Pittsburgh Pirates over 64 wins this season. They are terrible. However, I was 100% right about returning to...

The clamor of a pride of lions racing by your upscale tent awakens camp at the break of dawn. At breakfast, look away for a second and a team of baboons...

Do you even remember where you stashed your suitcases? No doubt they’re somewhere in that utility closet where, over the last 11 months, more and more junk has accumulated while...

This is a story about how the saver got saved. About the baseball relief pitcher who had to go to the bullpen for help. The right-hander who made a career...

Sergeants Bilko and Carter had nothing on her. Sgt. Bilko, the television Army boss in the mid-1950s and 60s, shouted his orders in a very rapid and high octave crescendo....

Sports, the toy department of life, has a way of keeping things real. For me, coronavirus wasn’t real until this week. Oh sure, my portfolio was taking a pounding but...

I admit I still have a lot to learn about a lot of things with not much time left on the game clock. Airline travel isn’t one of them. With...

Sweet Home Alabama, by the time the morning coffee pot runs dry, it’ll be sweet home no more. Birmingham, Alabama, where the United Van Lines truck pulls up and Ibis…

Like almost everything else in life these days, getting on a bicycle used to be easier. Much easier. Nevertheless, last Monday I put my left foot on the left pedal…

If politics makes for strange bedfellows, then in our house tennis heroes fall just short of separate bedrooms. While Andi and I are on different ends of the political spectrum,…