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Sports column by Matt Dickerson: Dangers of fishing (in the lower 48)

Posted on October 1, 2015 |
By Matt Dickerson



My good friend Dave was recently hit by a flying boat while walleye fishing in South Dakota.

Getting hit by a flying boat was probably not on Dave’s list of dangers to avoid while fishing. He and I spent the summer teaching and traveling together in Alaska. As the adults responsible for the safety of nine college students, we had a long list of potential dangers associated with fishing and spending time on the waters of Alaska. We worked hard to minimize and mitigate them. But we were aware of them.

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Sports column by Andy Kirkaldy: Fall schedule posing challenge to Independent

Posted on September 23, 2015 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



So, please be patient with photographer Trent Campbell and me.

We are doing our best to show up at your team’s games this fall, really. But it’s been difficult.

To start with, many local high school sports teams have opened on the road. For example, two teams we haven’t seen yet, Mount Abraham and Middlebury field hockey, played four of their first five and five of their first six games, respectively, away from their home turf.

Those other two games? Wednesdays.

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Sports column by Mattthew Dickerson: Finding water

Posted on September 17, 2015 |
By Matthew Dickerson



My wife and I have been celebrating milestones lately — by which I mean opportunities to be more aware of my increasing age. Two summers ago our oldest son graduated from college, got engaged and declared his fiscal independence. Last summer we hit the point where we had been married for half our lives. This summer our oldest son got married, our middle son spent his first summer away from home, our youngest graduated from high school, and we crossed the barrier of having lived in Vermont for half of our lives.

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Karl Lindholm: Don & Jerry, Curt Gowdy, 'Balee Baloo,' and my Mom

Posted on September 10, 2015 |
By Karl Lindholm



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My mother almost ruined me for sports.

When I was just a kid, eight or ten or so, I was listening to a Red Sox game on the radio at home, and the Red Sox unloaded on an opposing pitcher, scoring a bunch of runs, and driving the poor guy from the game.

I exulted, casting aspersions no doubt on the other team and its woeful pitcher: “Hit the showers, you bum!” I said, or some other such churlish comment.

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Sports Column: Post from Alaska part 4 - Trout, tundra and the arctic

Posted on September 3, 2015 |
By Matt Dickerson



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It was late evening. I’d been in leaky waders all day and didn’t want to put them on again. So I was standing barefoot, knee-deep in the icy waters of an arctic river flowing across tundra toward the Chukchi Sea. My shins and ankles ached. My feet were numb. But at the moment, I was not aware of the pain. My heart was pumping with adrenaline because I’d just seen that the big fish at the end of my fly line was not another chum salmon, but my first ever sea-run Dolly Varden trout.

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Matt Dickerson in Alaska with seals and sea kayaks near Seward

Posted on August 20, 2015 |
By Matt Dickerson



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Karl Lindholm: It was old – and then it was new

Posted on August 13, 2015 |
By Karl Lindholm



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I had forgotten just how much fun it is to go to a professional baseball game in Burlington. I used to go all the time, but age, obligation, and habit combined to change my summer routines. I became less keen to drive up Route 7 to Centennial Field (and back!) night after night.

The first few years the Expos were here (they arrived in 1994), we had season tickets and came to as many games as we could, giving away our tickets to Middlebury friends when we were otherwise obliged.

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Matt Dickerson: Posts from Alaska Part 2: Bears and Brenden on Bird Creek

Posted on August 5, 2015 |
By Matt Dickerson



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Another thought or two on soccer and the Red Sox

Posted on July 30, 2015 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



A few thoughts on soccer and the sorry state of the Sox, left behind in Vermont while the author lounges on the beaches of southern New England (or in movie theaters, depending on the weather).

First, one last visit to the women’s soccer World Cup. A lot of credit for the U.S. team’s late surge was given to the tactical switch in the formation that allowed Carli Lloyd more offensive freedom, and no doubt that played a role in the successful Cup run.

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Matt Dickerson provides posts from Alaska Part 1: The Yurts

Posted on July 23, 2015 |
By Matt Dickerson



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“I want to stay in a yurt.”

That’s what my wife Deborah told me. The comment did not come out of the blue. Two years ago I went on a research trip to Alaska. It was the summer of the graduation of my oldest son, Thomas, from Saint Michael’s College. So I added a week to the end of my research trip, and took Thomas with me as his graduation present. We backpacked, fished, biked, and saw Dahl’s sheep. We also went on a three-night sea-kayaking trip in Kachemak Bay near Homer, and stayed in a yurt at Right Beach.

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