sports column
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Matthew Dickerson: Baby loons, raging wind and more
If we had noticed a weather alert with wind gust warnings of 70 mph — as had the folks in the RV two sites away from us who…
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Karl Lindholm: Bill Walton never died before
Bill Walton died at 71 on May 27, not an age where you can say he was cheated in life, but it does seem he died too young.…
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Matthew Dickerson: Beware the marmots
When the day began, we had no idea that our greatest danger would come from marmots. Bears perhaps, or winding mountain roads. But marmots?
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Karl Lindholm: Recognition is finally here for Negro Leagues
I didn’t think it would ever happen. Practically speaking, I didn’t think it was possible: that is, that the brilliance of Black baseball players during the 60 years…
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Matthew Dickerson: Two days enjoying nature of the Everglades
My cousin-in-law Ken likes to go for swamp walks in the Florida Everglades, making his way from one hardwood hammock to the next through the knee-to-waist-deep waters of…
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Karl Lindholm: Cooperstown is a great place to be!
Have you been to Cooperstown? Recently? It’s about three and a half hours from here, the last 45 minutes of which are off the thruway and run through the…
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Matthew Dickerson: Floridians have good reasons to restore the Ocklawaha
The first alligator I saw in the wild was somewhat anticlimactic.
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Matthew Dickerson: Wild birds part of wastewater solution
One of numerous sad stories of environmental devastation in Florida has been its many efforts spanning well over a century to drain its wonderful wetlands, including even the…
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Matthew Dickerson: A fisher sees the wonder of native fish
It was only my second cast of the day: a little weighted nymph imitating a mayfly larva that I drifted along the bottom of a thigh-deep hole.
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Karl Lindholm: Middlebury’s Freddy Mosier has played baseball everywhere!
“I think my passion for baseball started when I was four or five and my dad gave me a baseball card — a card of Albert Belle (a…
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Matthew Dickerson: Boosting native plants to promote nature’s lifecycle
A year and a half ago, my wife, Deborah, bought an Extractigator. What on earth is an Extractigator? The short answer is that it’s a device for yanking…
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Karl Lindholm: Women’s hoop has a record breaker: Alexa Mustafaj
In the quarterfinals of the NESCAC women’s basketball tournament on Feb. 17, Middlebury was down by four in the third quarter to the dreaded Amherst Mammoths.
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Matthew Dickerson: Let’s consider spawning salmon and hydropower without a dam
The phrase “wicked problems” has been around since at least the early 1970s. It refers to challenges that typically have no correct solution, but only different options of…
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Matthew Dickerson: Vermont offers opportunities to see swimmers and creepy crawlies
Earlier this week, my wife and I took our two-year-old grandson B to the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain to see some fishes and turtles and frogs…
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Karl Lindholm: Sports Illustrated emphasized the ‘writing’ in ‘sports writing’
The school was abuzz when I arrived. Students crowded around me, their enthusiasm barely contained. I was their English teacher and coach — and on this day in…
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Karl Lindholm: Coach’s course puts sports and its lessons in context
Mike Leonard and Scott Langerman are friends — friends and colleagues. Together, they offered a Winter Term course at Middlebury College this January, “Sports and Society: How Sports Transcend…