Reading Frank Deford’s long pieces — it really didn’t matter the subject — in Sports Illustrated as a teenager was for me an important introduction to the power of the word.
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Apparently any money that a team’s owners put toward their own arena is a donation to the city’s infrastructure. Indeed. Perhaps charitable tax receipts should be issued?
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It feels like the end. Tiger may return to play again, but even before his injuries he had long ceased being a threat. Golf, which for more than a decade beginning in the late 1990s seemed to be all-Tiger all-the-time, has moved on.
Read MoreThe drama of Super Bowl LI was the great role reversal. The Patriots – by far the best team in football for years, having finished their last five seasons in at least the semi-final game – managed to win as underdogs.
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