Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The Bonduel boys basketball team fell just short of a WIAA title Saturday, but the joyful reverberations of its near-perfect season continue to pace the town. “People asked me if it’s ok to pray for a basketball team,” Deacon Todd said at St. Martin’s Sunday morning mass. “I told them it’s ok to pray for [...]
I have been wanting to learn how to play hockey for about 50 years. On Saturday at Jones Park, I finally got the chance. As part of my quest to learn six new sports for my 60th year, I asked two very skilled hockey players I know to teach me how to play — Justin [...]
I have been wanting to learn hurling, the oldest field sport in the world, to prove we 60-year olds are still young. Hurling is an Irish sport dating back more than 3,000 years. Some say it is the sport that gave birth to every other sport -- lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, baseball, football, tennis and [...]
The path of totality went through Cleveland yesterday afternoon as South Carolina completed a perfect season by beating Iowa 87-75 in a game that saw rising stars, the bigs bang and the happy ascension of women's basketball on a global stage. Even a genuinely outstanding performance by the deep-space-nine Gamecocks could not eclipse the accomplishments [...]
The first time I read Mirin Fader's outstanding biography of Giannis Antetokounmpo, I loped through it with increasing speed. Fascinated and eager to learn more about the NBA MVP and his family, I whipped through that book so quickly I finished it, breathless and amazed, in a couple of days. The second time through, I'm [...]