Category: Sports

Let the Games Begin!

I’m laying in the tissues and hankies.
It’s Olympics time: The Winter Olympics, and not even that strange offshoot we are seeing in Washington DC and Maryland and other climate-whacked locales better used to toasty Februarys than the igloos of the moment. The Games in Vancouver.
I don’t ski. I never understood why it is fun to [...]

Denis Horgan | Feb 12, 2010

In the Snow, Thoughts Drift to Baseball — in Cuba & Morocco

There is a new snowfall to admire, a lovely coating that frosts each twig and the winter foliage. Crisply beautiful to look at, the season is appropriately cold and brisk, wintry, slippery, icy.
So it is, of course, that the mind drifts to baseball. And in my muddled mind, at least, to baseball in [...]

Denis Horgan | Feb 3, 2010