Category: Sports
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Two Lives Collide at the Ball Park on Father’s Day
My two lives collided today when we took the boys to Tropicana Field for a game between the Rays and the Marlins. It’s still weird going back to that place. Did you ever go back to your old high school for a visit in the years shortly after graduation? You…
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The Places I Saw, the Things I Did
I was a sportswriter from 1986 until 2010. During that time, I worked primarily for the Tampa Tribune in Florida. When I was hired there in 1992, there were about 65 people on the sports staff. After the most recent round of layoffs, there are, by my count, seven sportswriters…
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These Aren’t the Spurs You’re Looking For. Move Along.
My older son knows not one, but two Tottenham Hotspur fight songs by heart. He actually learned them two years ago, back when my sickness was still new and I was extraordinarily contagious. Sickness? Yeah. Spurs Fever. How did this happen? Long story short: NOT because of Bill Simmons. Long…
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The Life and Times of Travis Harper (Or How Jorge Posada, Gary Sheffield, Alex Rodriguez and Hideki Matsui Taught Me to Keep Calm & Carry On)
It’s almost soccer season again. This will be my older son’s fourth at the YMCA. It’ll be the first for our younger son, who seems genuinely eager to get it right. He only picked up the ball every eight seconds the last time we popped out for a kick-around in the…
Carter Gaddis, Writer & Editor 
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