Category Archives: Sports

Bringing The Title Back Home

July 4, 2023 – 3:49 am

In 2007 the USA failed to qualify for the finals of sailing’s most prestigious title, The America Cup, however Joey Chesnut of Potomac Falls, VA vanquished the six-time defending hot dog eating champ Takeru Kobayashi and brought the trophy back to the States.  At the annual Fourth of July eat-off the two finalists were tied […]

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Boston Celtics Forever 2023

May 24, 2023 – 8:28 pm

I am a diehard fan and I am extremely grateful for this past season when they gave in my darkest days and night another reason to live Forever green The 2022-23 Celtics squad is the 150th NBA team to fall into an 0-3 deficit in a playoff series. The first 149 teams all lost their […]

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WIN AT ANY COST by Peter Nolan Smith

February 11, 2023 – 7:22 am

In 1968 the Baltimore Colts entered Super Bowl III as 18-point favorites over the New York Jets. The NFL champions were led by Earl Morrall in place of Johnny Unitas, while the AFL underdogs were quarterbacked by the flashy Joe Namath and the Alabama native boasted in Miami, “We’re gonna win the game. I guarantee […]

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The Cost of Morality

February 11, 2023 – 4:04 am

In 1977 a Beacon Hill lawyer hired me to vanish his gas-guzzling Oldsmobile. $300 to never seen the Detroit pig again. It was grand-theft auto, but the risk was minimal. He’d report the car stolen the next day and collect on the insurance within a month. I had disappeared three of his friend’s lemons during […]

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Boycott FIFA World Cup – Qatar

November 28, 2022 – 11:54 am

The Qatar peninsula has been populated for thousands of years. In the 1800s the peninsula provided pearls to the Ottoman Empire and later became a British Protectorate. The sleepy Gulf city gained importance with the discovery of oil and natural gas. Its economy swelled with the worldwide demand for fossil fuels and enriched the ruling […]

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