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  • The summit of sport? Bottom of the ninth, of course

    Posted on October 31, 2014December 9, 2014

    And now it begins: Should Gordon have gone for home? The argument will never end. Nor, we should hope, will the excitement of World Series baseball.

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  • Israeli Exodus Numero II: Fanciful answer?
     Too bad we can’t ask Sammy

    Posted on October 21, 2014October 21, 2014

    “Travelers along the Mediterranean-to-Jerusalem corridor could stop, drop a quarter in a telescope and watch the Arabs fighting each other. That show would go on forever, because that’s what Arabs do: fight each other. Back in Baja’s garden of Eban, it would be almost Biblical.”

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  • ‘Doc, I got a tick.’

    Posted on December 4, 2013October 12, 2015

    Health care, college-style.

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  • How Cronkite learned about the death in Dallas

    Posted on November 23, 2013November 30, 2013

    How the news of JFK’s murder first got to the world’s radio and television stations.

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  • Remembering my laughing Cousin Bev

    Posted on September 21, 2013December 20, 2013

    The best audience any kid could ever hope for has moved on down the road, no doubt laughing all the way.

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  • To my friends: Thanks for a helluva party!

    Posted on August 1, 2013September 6, 2013

    Yesterday, though, we had a big party here at the Cholla Ridge Ranch. Lots of old friends dropped by.

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  • I’d rather be passed out than passed on, or, call me anything you’d like, but don’t call me Home

    Posted on July 27, 2013August 8, 2013

    If you’re old enough to read obituaries, you’re also old enough to consider this. Quick! Before it’s too late!

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  • Car racing? You don’t get it? Well…

    Posted on May 17, 2013May 24, 2014

    You don’t understand the attraction to car racing? Maybe Larry Phillips can explain it. If not, well…

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  • Chauvinism, R.I.P. Forty years and counting

    Posted on May 13, 2013May 24, 2014

    The day Bobby beat Margaret and male chauvinism was the loser.

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  • A day the Secret Service was Out of Service

    Posted on May 4, 2012October 20, 2017

    & I think it’s about time for me to tell this story. It’s been 41 years since it happened, but all this fol-de-rol about the President’s bodyguards cavorting in Cartegena with some money-grubbing hookers has got me thinking about it again. This doesn’t have anything to do with prostitutes. But it does have to do […]

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