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Take Me Back to the Ball Game?

“Take me out to the ball game…. Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack. I don’t care if I ever come back!” Opening Day. It’s tomorrow.  Yet I’m nauseous. And, it isn’t from peanuts and Cracker Jack–it’s betting. It has infused the game.  The number one story on ESPN.com today isn’t

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Lloyd, Noah, and Rex at the Graff-Pinkert Booth, PMTS 2019

Machining Show Business

I attended PMTS, the exhibition put on by the Precision Products Association last week, not really to sell screw machines, but to learn and connect.

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NCAA Basketballs await this year's Final Four

Hoops Heaven

I have just completed an indolent weekend of imbibing sports on TV: NCAA basketball winnowing 16 terrific college teams down to the Final Four and the

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