Billy Paultz Reconsidered

It’s another long Saturday night in the office. Random observations, etc. …
Two posts down is a reprint of a column I did for the Sunday News’ Living section about my kid and his interest in politics and him so looking forward to voting in the primary. Which reminds me: When we actually did walk down […]

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Despite himself, Chase Utley seems to be having his moment. Everybody digs the Phillies’ second baseman, including the all-star voting public and this guy. Now he’s been named one of America’s 25 fittest men by Men’s Fitness magazine.

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This column ran in the Sunday News Living Section March 30. It is posted here in honor of my kid’s high-school graduation.
I’d like you to meet my son.
That’s him over there, all feet and legs and contrarian hair, with the Jimi Hendrix T-shirt and the floor-sweeping pants.
Something of a free spirit, this […]

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Did a phone interview last week with Ben Crenshaw, for a story about an outing he’s doing here. Most of our talk wasn’t really for the story, just stuff I was interested in. Following are some highlights.
Crenshaw was captain of the 99 Ryder Cup team, which beat the Europeans with the famous comeback including Justin […]

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The Phils scored seven runs in the first two innings last night against a pitcher who was throwing 97 with movement. That made 42 runs in a stretch of 20 innings. Things are going fairly well right now.
In more substantive news, tonight’s start might be a crucial one for Adam Eaton. Kris Benson threw 75 […]

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Here’s my column in the May 11 Sunday News, sort of relevant here because it’s about “new media,” blogs and etc. I should probably do more of this kind of thing. In fact, I will. Promise….
Old, new media can coexist
Question: I’m a fiftyish white male sportswriter, so how come I’m not as angry […]

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Driving in to work today I heard one of the Mikes say if he was a Spurs fan, he’d feel pretty good about last night all things considered.
Have to disagree. Strongly.
The Spurs got a huge game (30 and 18) from Tim Duncan. Kobe did one of his covert, see-I-don’t-have-to-shoot-all-the-time numbers for a half. The […]

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So Tim Donaghy says relationships among NBA players, coaches and officials have “affected the outcome of games.” This after every radio talk-show host in the (ratings) book has been proclaiming that the league wants a Celtics-Lakers final and presumably the refs will help make that happen.
And now the draft lottery is won by a […]

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Lots of stuff going on lately - Dad’s in the hospital, the kids’s getting ready to graduate from high school - so blogging has sort of become the odd-activity-out.  We’re live from the press box of York’s Sovereign Bank Stadium before the Barnstormers’ game, with tons of observational-type material stored in the hump….
We tape The Low […]

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I get a lot of strange e-mails. My recent favorites have been from what is apparently a Pakistani boxing equipment company.
Dear Sir,
We are the Manufacturer of wide range of Boxing Gloves and Accessories.
We want to show our quality of products and give you competable prices thats you can easily compete the market prices.
About quality we […]

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