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Sports Column: New fishing platform is a boon for all

Posted on September 27, 2012 |
By Matt Dickerson



Anyone driving up Lincoln Road along the New Haven River from Bristol to West Lincoln in the past few weeks is sure to have noticed a new structure hanging over the water at Eagle Park. Indeed, over the past several months regular commuters have seen the entire project slowly take shape, including the grading and construction of a ramp leading from a parking lot down toward a bend in the river, and then eventually the appearance of a sturdy new platform and railings along with some attractive landscaping.

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Karl Lindholm: From the Panthers to the Orioles

Posted on September 20, 2012 |
By Karl Lindholm



Middlebury College senior Mike Joseph loves baseball — and now he has a shot, a long shot perhaps, to embark on a career in baseball, having signed a contract in August with the Baltimore Orioles.

As you read this, Mike is in Sarasota, training and competing for a month (15 games) in the Florida Instructional League. He’s the first Panther to join a Major League organization since the early 1950s.

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Sports Column: Anglers help conserve New Haven River

Posted on September 13, 2012 |
By Matt Dickerson



I always loved thunderstorms as a child. My favorite place to watch them was lakeside on vacations in Maine. I still enjoy a good thunderstorm now and then. But since the flood of 1998 — and since I moved into a house on the side of a hill in the middle of the woods — my feelings have changed.

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NFL owners are out of bounds in referee lockout

Posted on September 6, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



Y’know, it’s already harder and harder to get excited about each new NFL season as more information steadily comes out about how inherently dangerous the sport, notably at the professional level, is to the human brain.

And now we have the owner-imposed referee lockout to dampen enthusiasm even further.

It’s really difficult to root for a sport that is owned and operated by some of the meanest people who walk the face of the earth.

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Sports column: Lessons from Steinbeck and U-Hual

Posted on August 30, 2012 |
By Matt Dickerson



Roughly two and a half decades ago I got married, finished graduate school, and moved to Vermont for a job teaching at Middlebury College. That was a time when U-Haul, a company synonymous with cross-country moves, had the motto: “Adventures in Moving.”

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Sports column: Mike Trout - big catch, or one who got away?

Posted on August 23, 2012 |
By Karl Lindholm



 

Here he comes, just at the start, and he’s a beauty.

The Phee-nom.

I wish it were the old days, when baseball in August was just heating up, prelude to the pennant run and the Series, and not a concession to the colossus that is football these days. 

What a great baseball season in the Majors we have, this summer.

Sure, the Red Sox are down — how can they not be, with all those injuries: 26 players on the “disabled list” this summer, the most of any team in the last 25 years. Now, Middlebrooks.

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Games always prove gripping

Posted on August 9, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



As usual, the Olympics have hooked me. No, I haven’t watched the London Games 24/7. The need to stain our deck, get our new desktop computer up to speed and other household chores have gotten in the way. Oh, and they actually expect me to show up for work, too. The nerve.

Still, my family and I have watched a fair amount, some live on our desktop, some painfully parceled out by NBC in primetime, and some recorded on our DVR. The DVR is great because it allows us to skip through video of gymnasts and swimmers when they were kids, not to mention Super Pac ads.

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One thing to do in the summer

Posted on August 2, 2012 |
By Matt Dickerson



What to do on a summer’s day is not really a problem for me. Just my list of outdoor projects around the house could keep me busy for weeks. I need to get my trailer hitched up and haul the cut-and-split firewood stacked on lumber trails around the property, so I can get it under a shed roof before snowfall.

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Larry & Satchel; The Buckeyes and the Indians

Posted on July 26, 2012 |
By Karl Lindholm



Black kids in the U.S. don’t play baseball anymore.

As a generalization, that’s true. Participation by African-Americans in baseball has declined precipitously at all levels in the last two decades or so.

In 1975, 27 percent of all major leaguers were African-American. Now that number is 8 percent. The Red Sox have one African-American on their 25 man roster, Carl Crawford.

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