Tag: Sports
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Lions-Packers: First Time Peeing in a Parking Garage
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” Bill Shankly I took my son James to the Lions-Packers Thursday night last week, and I’m still processing the experience. It was my first game…
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How wrong I was: golf as a dad
adapted from the “Against the Grain” column in the August 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. — from Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson…
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10 Things I Hate About You
By Rory Hughes Adapted from “Against the Grain” column (March 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine) The minutiae of the Rules of Golf, as well as the unwritten rules of golf etiquette, are enough to drive Joe Public away from the game. However, this has led the rest of us to a sense of entitlement;…
