sports column
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Karl Lindholm: Local ‘blazer’ is staying close to home
“I would have recruited her if she came from Mars!”
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Matthew Dickerson: You don’t need to age to enjoy the outdoors
When I was young (and my definition of “young” now includes anything less than a half century) I assumed that outdoors and comfort were mutually exclusive. Not so…
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Karl Lindholm: Jeff Brown let his players create a winning culture
Duncan Edwards, a lifelong educator, described Jeff Brown as “a great coach but an even better man. My son is a better man for having been in his…
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Matthew Dickerson: Intrepid anglers love to go ‘blueing’
It was my friend Drew YoungeDyke who introduced me to the term “bluelining.” At the time, Drew had recently taken a job as national communications director for Trout…
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Matthew Dickerson: Rail trails and swallowtails
We had not been on the trail for more than a few minutes peddling up a hill west of Gorham when the first tiger swallowtail appeared, fluttering up…
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Karl Lindholm: Bill Lee saves me from Pete Rose
Writing about Pete Rose filled me with despair. Pete died last September at age 83. I was hoping interest in him might fade with the man. Alas, he’s…
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Matthew Dickerson: Outdoor opportunities are endless
Thought of the day: I’ve been living in Addison County for more than 35 years now, and I continue to find more to discover and enjoy in the…
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Matthew Dickerson: Bird listening — it’s good for you
Magnolia warbler, black-throated green warbler, blackpoll warbler, pine warbler, mourning warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, orange-crowned warbler and yellow warbler.
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Peter Lindholm: The (E)motion Offense unites the generations
A common style of offense in basketball is the “motion” offense. Like much of life, it is defined by an oxymoron: constant change.
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Matthew Dickerson: Experiences on a field trip (and other ways to learn about rivers)
Last week I went on a field trip with a class on “Water Resources and Hydrogeology” in Middlebury College’s Earth and Climate Science Department, taught by Professor Peter…
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Matthew Dickerson: Walking by waterfalls provides an unhurried perspective
“My mind is never empty or idle at the joinings of streams.” These words come from Wendell Berry, in his beautiful essay “A Native Hill.” But the sentiment…
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Karl Lindholm: Bob Feller, Leon Day and their opening day heroics
Last week, Thursday, was Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, despite the fact that the Dodgers and Cubs had played two official games in Japan the week before.
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Matthew Dickerson: Cold, clean water flows in (and out) of the national forest
The entire budget of Glacier National Park — a million acres and more than a hundred year-round employees and several hundred seasonal employees — is less than the…
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Karl Lindholm: Two Vermont pilgrims visit hoop mecca
In January, I got a call from my college friend Greg: “Hey Karl, want to see Cooper Flagg in person?” he asked. “Heck, yes,” I said.
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Karl Lindholm: Panthers’ athletic success secret is a ‘wellness guru’
Here’s the setting: The cavernous Virtue Field House at Middlebury College, 10 a.m. on a quiet Sunday morning early in the fall, the football season. Some 40 to…
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Karl Lindholm: The indomitable El Tiante deserves to be in Hall of Fame
October 1975: I was a young secondary school teacher in Cleveland at University School, teaching English and coaching baseball and basketball (yes, I’m that old).