Category: Sports
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(Editor’s note: Published June 5, 1998, in the Philadelphia Daily News. Re-reading the part about Lance Armstrong’s reckoning and decision to commit to being a great cyclist again in the spring of 1996 feels more ominous than it did when I wrote it. That said, even with all the guy did to hurt the integrity…
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Asbury Park’s Anthony Wright and Mark Murray have made a home for themselves at the University of Delaware, as basketball stars.
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(This is an updated version of this post that also appeared at Vice in January 2018. The earlier one appeared at MensHealth.com.) The Super Bowl is broken—and not just because the insufferable New England Patriots keep winning it. No, the Super Bowl has a timing problem. The game starts late (6:40 pm ET), runs late,…
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Noted physicist Stephen Hawking turns 73 on Thursday. He’s lived with something very similar to Lou Gehrig’s Disease for 41 years; the average victim is dead within 14 months. It is a cruel and relentless malady. And yet, here he is, mind still sharp, world famous despite all he’s had to overcome. He’s written a…
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This is the bracket from Kevin’s company’s ping-pong tournament. Hmmm … whose name is there as the winner. Oh, Kevin.
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I got tickets to the All-Star Game from a colleague at work (thank you, Eric Adams) and invited my brother Chris. The game was at CitiField, home of the Mets. We had a good time, though the game was pretty lame. We couldn’t remember the last time we had 10 hours all to ourselves, brother…
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That was Virginia’s text to me, along with a screengrab of Pete and I, shown behind Phil Mickelson (above), right after he finished up the 18th hold of Saturday’s third round of the US Open. Phil was excited; he was in the lead heading into Sunday, if only by a single shot (it ended up…
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I got a last-minute offer to grab some VIP passes to the US Open, which is being held at the Merion Golf Club this year, and Pete and I went (Kelly had to work). We had a good time. Beautiful day. Access to the Lexus VIP tent (where Pete met ESPN studio guy Scott Van…
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But there was no saving Ohio State in its Elite 8 game, when it lost to Wichita State. Their team name: Shockers. No joke. If we’re looking for scapegoats, Kevin dropped about half his chicken parm sandwich on his T-shirt and couldn’t get it cleaned up.
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Auntie Do, we’re wearing our Ohio State stuff and thinking of you. P.S. It didn’t work. Boy, it didn’t work.
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Virginia and I took part in a 5k run at our church on Saturday. The course was very up-and-down, it was mostly on and around athletic fields—in other words, it was a slow track. And we did great—Virginia especially. She finished 27th among all 150-plus participants, and first in her age group (I will avoid…
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Our youngest, now 16, has been getting in his driving time since receiving his driving permit (above, he’s behind the wheel of a $95,000 Mercedes SUV that Kevin brought home last summer. He didn’t drive that, no matter how bad-ass he was feeling). He’s not half-bad, though he’ll have to stop driving on the side…
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