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The scouting combine is our annual baptism into the NFL’s bulls**t. We emerge from it soggy and squealing but reenergized, born again to both the awe and wonder of professional football and the grimy drudgery of the stagecraft behind the magic. The privilege to speak with any authority about the NFL offseason is earned by nodding through dozens of hypnotically uninformative press conferences, watching young men perform drills that only seasoned coaches can evaluate, scouring workout results down to the hundredth of a decimal and wobbling about in the wee hours hoping that a powerful agent thinks enough of you to share a secret that’s actually a self-serving lie.

by Larry Brown I’m getting old and my back’s been getting after me. Sailing my Potter 15 wasn’t hard on me; it was all the rest of it, launching, pulling out, cleaning the bottom. I might be the first sailor batty enough to sell his Potter because it was too big. Also, I sail mostly alone. My grandsons haven’t taken to sailing as I’d hoped. So I began thinking about something smaller—much smaller.

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There’s no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there’s only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I’m trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I’m thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. TRANSCRIPT OF BOB DYLAN’S REMARKS AT THE BILL OF RIGHTS DINNER at the Americana Hotel on December 13th 1963

Musings of an Old SportswriterZach Edey sends a loud message in the Boilers' opening-round victory over Grambling State He became just the third player in NCAA history to record a 30-point, 20-rebound game, and he showed the world he's NOT messing around. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaO7waSpmq6Zqcdwus6tnGibXWp%2Fc4WUbWdr

Last night, one of my kids watched the Tim Robbins movie, “Bob Roberts.” I had a small role as the main character’s singing partner – Clarissa Flan. In the madness that was raising four kids very close in age, I failed to inform them of much I did in my life. They knew I was in a band with their dad. But really, beyond that, I never sat around like Miss Havisham and said ”Oh, I was on a major label at 20 years old.

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Bobby Zimuruski is a minor character in the 1995 Walt Disney film, A Goofy Movie. Voiced by Pauly Shore, Bobby is a friend of the film’s protagonist, the angsty Max Goof. He is a class clown of sorts, a troublemaker, and he’s often held up as an example of what Max shouldn’t be. That’s too bad. Basically every character in the movie could learn a lot about life from Bobby. He’s a legend.

The beginning of the baseball season this year brought with it an “epidemic” of injuries to pitchers and a range of explanations to explain it. The Major League Baseball Player’s Association wanted to blame it on the recently introduced pitch clock, which could conceivably cause pitchers to rush into their motion in physiologically unsound ways. Presumably aware that the pitch clock makes the game much more palatable to spectators, the league itself loudly disagrees, pointing out that “velocity and spin increases” are “highly correlated with arm injuries.