Month: December 2012

• Sports Travel

  The Time We Almost Missed Christmas

  We shuffled up to the customer service counter winded, defeated, dejected. The O’Hare concourse was empty. Anybody who had a chance to get somewhere that night, Christmas Eve 2000, was either there already or on the way. Not us. We were trapped in the giant airport on the outskirts of…

  December 22, 2012
• Sports

  This Game’s Fun, Okay? Baseball’s Hall of Fame Conundrum

  I was fortunate enough to see Barry Bonds play in person in a handful of games during my tenure as a baseball writer. The first was in October 2003, when his San Francisco Giants lost a National League division playoff series to the eventual World Series champion Marlins in Miami.…

  December 11, 2012