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Kyle Busch leaves victory-laden, complicated legacyThe plan was for this to be another reflective, exciting race weekend for motorsports fans at the unofficial beginning of summer.,The Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600, the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing" and NASCAR's crown jewel piece as its longest race, respectively, arguably compose the best rac...

Trade deadline winners & losers: Padres, M's serious about Series pushThe World Series is always the motivator when teams pursue trades at the deadline. The chance at a first title in franchise history only serves to double that inspiration.,Neither the Seattle Mariners nor San Diego Padres have won it all, and both acted as if they were ready to part with decades of ...

Local Columnist Woefully Out Of His ElementOne possible explanation for the existence of this Albany (Georgia) Herald column, in which Carlton Fletcher fields all the questions a “female person” might have watching her first baseball game, could be that it was accidentally sucked through a wormhole decades ago and finally reappeared on Sept....

Ornery Columnist: Snacks In Youth Sports Are Making America Soft

Snacks: Are there too many of them? I don’t know—when I look in my pantry, I am often disappointed by how few snacks there are. If you ask me, there should be a lot more snacks around me at all times. Snacks are good is a broadly popular opinion, judging by the contents of aisles four thru six of my...

<i>Denver Post</i> Columnist Fired After Racist Tweet About Indy 500 Winner

A hail-mary apology couldn’t save former ESPN and, now, former Denver Post columnist Terry Frei after the seven-time state sportswriter of the year tweeted his disapproval of Japanese driver Takuma Sato winning yesterday’s Indy 500....

A Few Points About The Quality Of Peggy Noonan's Political Analysis

Why does Peggy Noonan goad me so? Her softness of tone; her airy sound of literary facility, at least to the ears of those who generally read only policy papers; her friendship with Cesar, at the deli counter. In her own way, she is the right wing version of Thomas Friedman: dangerous because people...

Vital Cultural Activity Of Our Era Is Not Music But Rather Something I Still Participate In, Says Old Guy

“Food is the new music” is a good phrase to memorize for when you get too old to really go to a lot of concerts any more, because that shit happens very late at night....

Taking "Lack Of Context" To Terrifying New Extremes

“Context.” What does it mean? Do we really need it? Is it possible to write an entire, outraged newspaper column without any context at all?...