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Family is the Game Plan

Fernando Mendoza is an odd name for a Heisman Trophy candidate college quarterback, much less one from Number One ranked Indiana, which hadn’t won the Big Ten for 58 years until last Saturday. Fernando ended up in Bloomington via Miami and Berkeley, California. His brother Alberto was already there, also

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I Love Cars

I am a car guy and, as I do most years, I strolled through the North American International Auto Show which is held in Detroit

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Better With Age

Are you getting better with age? The question came up for me watching Tom Brady’s virtuoso performance in the Super Bowl. He threw for over

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Stealing Signs

Chris Correa, an employee of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, hacked into the computer system of the Houston Astros. Over a period

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Can’t Think of Anything

I’ve started this piece several times over the last two weeks, and each time I got deflected and went on to something else like eating,

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My Syrian Driver

Last weekend I took a Uber downtown. After a few minutes of chit chat, my driver told me he was an immigrant from Syria who

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