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Karl Lindholm: Checking in — Life in the rainforest, kids playing sports

Posted on March 12, 2014 |
By Karl Lindholm



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Editor’s note: Independent sports columnist Karl Lindholm is filing his reports this year from Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa.

There I was, last Saturday morning, sitting in a small grove at the Rain Forest International School (RFIS), at an all-day girls’ soccer and boys’ basketball tournament. The day was hot and muggy, and I was glad to be in the shade.

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Lindholm: I never missed one from the stands

Posted on December 18, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



Ted Williams was wrong. Hitting a baseball is not the hardest task in sports. Reffing a basketball game is.

A few years back, I made a foolish decision. I agreed to become a basketball referee — not a real ref, a certified official, but far worse. I agreed to officiate games in the Middlebury Adult Men’s League in which I had played for nearly 15 years.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Dancing in the streets

Posted on November 20, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



The Lions are in!

On Sunday, the Indomitable Lions, Cameroon’s national football team, defeated Tunisia 4-1 in a knockout game at Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, here in Yaounde. So Cameroon will be going to the Really Big Dance in Brazil next June, la Coupe du Monde.

They were dancing in the streets in Yaounde. The World Cup is a very big deal here, and just about everywhere else in the world too.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Johnny America meets the Internet

Posted on October 23, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



The summer of my 21st year, a long time ago, I worked in a machine factory in a small town in Switzerland, about 20 miles from Zurich.

I had worked the previous eight summers at a golf course in Maine, and I was ready for a change, an adventure, something independent.

My co-workers at the factory accepted me as a curiosity. We all wore the same blue common-laborer jumpsuit. For many, I was the first American they had ever known.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Impossible Dream II – Red Sox surprise fans everywhere

Posted on September 26, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



It happened once before, a long time ago.

In the summer of 1966, the Red Sox were a bad team. They finished in ninth place with 72 wins and 90 losses, 26 games behind Baltimore, who won the AL pennant and then swept the Dodgers in the Series.

The following year, as many will recall, was the so-called “Impossible Dream” season. With new manager Dick Williams barking orders and Carl Yastrzemski playing out of his mind, the Red Sox were 92-70, won the AL pennant, and took the Cards to seven games in the World Series.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Elvis has left the building

Posted on August 29, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



That’s right, I’m outtahere.

I’m already in Africa, where I will spend the next year.

Africa! How about that! — Cameroon, to be precise. Me. Africa. Imagine.

I’m just about the most provincial person I know. A trip to Burlington for me is a big deal. I have traveled much in Addison County. I am one comforted by routine and familiarity.

I teach a course at Middlebury on the literature and culture of Northern New England, which is essentially an examination of the Yankee archetype. I use myself as Exhibit A.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Middlebury's first family of sports

Posted on August 1, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



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You figured their kids would be good athletes, but it took them a while to get together.

She said that was his fault. “I had to give him an ultimatum.” He sees it differently, “It took her a long time to see that I had a couple of things going for me.”

Sue Parsons was a junior at Middlebury when she started dating Bobby Ritter, a senior. That was 1982. They were married nine years later.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: The pitcher's mound can be a dangerous place

Posted on July 3, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



Herb Score was the best young pitcher in baseball in 1955.

Possessed of a blazing fastball, Score won 16 games as a 21-year-old rookie that year and 20 the next. He led all Major League pitchers in strikeouts both years, averaging nearly 10 a game.

Score seemed destined for a brilliant career, barring injury.

Ah, that “barring injury” proviso, the intervention of fate.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Béisbol Paradiso produces another big-time talent

Posted on June 20, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



The name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, like Mickey Mantle or Bo Jackson, the players he is being compared to. That’s pretty good company.

He can also be compared to the great Negro League Hall of Famers, Oscar Charleston, perhaps, or even more precisely his countrymen, Cristóbal Torriente, “The Cuban Strongboy,” or “El Inmortal” Martin Dihigo.

Meet Yasiel Puig (yah-zeal pweeg).

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Sports Column by Karl Lindholm: Nava not just a folk hero

Posted on May 30, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



Late last summer, I was chatting with Lynn and Mike McKenna in front of the Middlebury Market about the woes of the Red Sox, who were headed for last place, limping to a miserable finish.

They were waxing enthusiastic about Red Sox outfielder Daniel Nava, their favorite player.

Nava is a most unlikely major-leaguer. The Red Sox plucked him from independent ball in 2008 after playing for the Chico Outlaws of the Golden Baseball League in California. The Red Sox paid the Outlaws $1.00 (that’s right — one dollar) for the rights to sign him.

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