Billy Paultz Reconsidered

I wrote this a couple weeks ago and, for some reason, didn’t post it…
If you scroll down a bit and look to your right, you’ll find a link to “The best newspaper columnist in America.” He’s Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Examiner, and I’m not sure he quite deserves that billing any longer […]

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We’re in the office for a long Saturday. Observations:
Can’t say it broke my heart to see Arizona, the team that supposedly justified its at-large bid by beating Utah and Cleveland State, get slapped silly by Louisville last night….
Had a very strange interview with very strange Darren Daulton this morning. He was doing a card show in Ephrata.
Somebody […]

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I’m at the Barnstormers’ game, and there’s a local physician’s group that threw out ceremonial first pitches (yes, plural) and was also allowed to take a hand mike and, over the stadium PA, essentially do an advertisement for their practice that lasted like 3-4 minutes. What the… People are actually applauding at all the appropriate […]

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is a wonderful thing, one of those Internet creations no one could have forseen and it’s now hard to imagine being without. But its bios of athletes often include some subtle weirdness.
Dan Kreider’s is only eight sentences long, but one of those is: “Kreider attended the University of New Hampshire and was an A student […]

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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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