The Major League Baseball postseason is here. For the first time since 2009, the Boston Red Sox are involved. Look around and you can almost tell. I don’t sense a groundswell of expectations from the “casual fan” heading into October. Perhaps that is reason to lift hands to heaven in a prayer of thanksgiving. We […]
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The Hot Corner: Schools can cure blowout epidemic
Maine high school football’s return to four classifications is less than a month old. The rush to judgment is staggering. It’s the planet we’re on now. Peyton Manning gets fitted for a second Super Bowl ring after carving up the mighty Raiders secondary. And on the opposite end of the overreaction spectrum, after a smattering […]
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The Hot Corner: Looking at the Bobcats under new light
Sports columnists are below average at saying that we’re sorry, that we were wrong, or that we have re-evaluated anything in our lives other than which malted beverage we’re consuming after a hard day of “work.” Wait, “below average?” Let’s not be excessively generous. We stink at it. Every time I accidentally set down the […]
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The Hot Corner: Patience with Patriots will be rewarded
For every action during the first month of the NFL season, there is an immediate, irrational overreaction. It hasn’t always been this way. That’s the price of a world in which Twitter, Facebook, fantasy football and Skip Bayless are allowed to exist. We used to recognize that five months are an eternity in this most […]
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The Hot Corner: Time to examine what our kids are consuming
There are so many visible and intangible forces sabotaging our kids’ lives that we just can’t seem to keep track of them all. We’ve done a credible job, for example, with anti-bullying programs and by teaching them to respect people of different faiths, skin tones or other orientations. Yet somehow we fell asleep at the […]
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The Hot Corner: Super win for the little guys
OXFORD — Travis Benjamin now has won the same TD Bank 250 that Kyle Busch dominated two years ago. Same event that Kevin Harvick commanded three Julys before that. The difference couldn’t be more dramatic if you took a panoramic photo of Charlotte Motor Speedway, then plopped it down next to a snapshot of Benjamin’s […]