One of my favorite plays in football is the “catch from behind/chase-down” — in which what looks like a long touchdown play is thwarted by a gritty player who makes a lung-searing sprint to keep the ball out of the end zone. I always have had a sort of romantic attachment to this kind of […]

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We are pretty sure Albert Pujols can catch and throw a ball, and sometimes hit it, too … and is ready to take the field, if he gets the chance. Which suddenly makes him attractive to the injury-ravaged Los Angeles Dodgers. Pujols was released by the Angels 10 days ago, and most of us figured […]

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The Covid-19 pandemic has had an effect on nearly everyone on planet Earth, one way or another. One outcome is physical — testing positive, exhibiting symptoms and having to confront a dire, sometimes deadly virus. And then there are the rest of us, a global majority, who have avoided Covid the Virus for the past […]

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In the spring of 1986, the three-sport star athlete Mark Collins of San Bernardino’s Pacific High School was one of the top prospects in the National Football League player draft. You could ask anyone. He was a leader as well as an elite athlete, and the NFL did not miss him, even if he was […]

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