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Tomorrow, December 7, marks the 80th Anniversary of a Day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said would be a day that would, “live in infamy.” On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 America’s naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by aircraft and submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Sadly as each year passes…
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It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I used that line in a column last September to describe the absurdity of trying to play football during a global COVID-19 pandemic. When I wrote those words, and the 1,000 plus…
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As first noted in a column nearly eight years ago one of my favorite television shows growing up was MacGyver. I enjoyed the show so much that I even dressed up as MacGyver for Halloween one year. Additionally, I have carried a Swiss Army knife that I got for Christmas in my pocket for over…
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Last week news broke that the Houston Astros were being sued by the family of a girl who was hit by a foul ball at Minute Maid Park in 2019. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday, and settled by Saturday. While the speedy settlement likely had more to do with the optics of the court…
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Today is Friday, August 13, 2021. For some people this means nothing more than the fact that yesterday was the 12th and tomorrow is the 14th. For the superstitious among us today means all of the things above in addition to it being an unlucky day all the way around. I first explored the Friday…
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Editor’s Note: As part of our occasional Way Back Wednesday feature, today we travel back one year and one week ago to August 3, 2020 when Major League Baseball (MLB) cancelled the highly touted Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, near the set of the 1989 movie of the same name as the game.…
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Today’s column was originally supposed to be about either a successful, or unsuccessful launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. For those unfamiliar with the Starliner, it is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) which serves to shuttle astronauts back and forth between earth and low earth orbit. The other player in the CCP game, SpX,…
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In the words of the late, great, Hall of Famer, Yogi Berra, “It’s déjà vu all over again” as once more COVID-19 cases are on the rise and baseball games and other aspects of life are being rescheduled or cancelled. The July 28, 2021 game between the Washington Nationals and the Philadelphia Phillies was postponed…
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) there are Guardians of the Galaxy battling aliens near and far. In Low Earth Orbit (LEO) the Guardians of Space Force protect the interests of America from wayward actors. Starting in 2022, the city of Cleveland will have Guardians of their own patrolling the diamonds of Major League Baseball.…
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On July 8, 2021, in another in a long list of “the show must go on” actions it was announced that the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics would still start at the end of July 2021, but would do so without fans in attendance. In short, the games would have fanfare but no common man or…
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