It takes a generous foot to walk a mile in John Henson's shoes. You'd have to wear a size 15 and have a record-setting wing span. You'd have to have been raised right, in a tight-knit family, with two parents who are business executives and a sister who plays college basketball at Duke. You'd have [...]
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Five reasons I’m no Cubs fan
I served (dinner to) Cubs fans. I know Cubs fans. Cubs fans are friends of mine. I'm no Cubs fan. I realized this a dozen years ago when I attended my first game at Wrigley Field almost exactly, to the day, 12 years ago. Why so specific with the date you ask? Because my first and [...]
NiteLite Run 2015: We glowed (and then we sweated)
Mostly, I looked forward to the anonymity of a night run as we race-day registered for the Fox Cities Nitelite Run Friday. I pictured myself cruising quietly along, obscured by darkness and neon streaks of passing glow sticks, lost in my own end-of-the-week thoughts. "Hey, Laura! Is that you??" Startled, I looked up and saw [...]
A Hall of Fame reunion
Thanks to the generosity and history-making success of the classiest professional sports organization we know, we're in the middle of a glorious, 10-day hobnob. The Packers invited Hall of Fame inductees, and members of the first Super Bowl team, to a reunion this week and, because that's the way they roll, they've included wives of [...]
Dear NFL rookie, it’s Go Pack Go time!
Dear Packer Rookies, Welcome to Lambeau. You don't know it yet, but that contract you signed? That's a lifetime deal, no matter what the numbers say. You're a Packer now and that makes you a member of one of professional sports' greatest fraternities. Don't believe me? Check out the Hall of Fame. One of the [...]