I’ve been around the program of recovery known as AA since 1988. In that time I’ve been exposed to all kinds of sponsors – the “Nazi” kind who won’t budge on anything and are hard-core, the soft, “sweet as pie” type whose answer to everything is the Serenity Prayer, and a good mix of in […]
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If you’re a professional wrestler, your theme song is one of the most important parts of your gimmick, right up there with tight color and fake talent to feel your fake pain. Hell, WWE puts out dozens of wrestler-themed entrance CDs, and fans turn them up – hearing the first chords announcing a wrestler’s entrance […]
Once upon a time there lived a baseball player who ran as swiftly and gracefully as a jaguar, who could perform magic without taking special “beans” and who spent his off-season helping humanity. It seems like a fairy tale, but fairy tales have happy endings. Roberto Clemente had no such thing. He died as he […]
There are grass courts. There are clay courts. But when you think of tennis, the courts most people think of are hard courts. Even though this type of court is the most readily available court to the average tennis player, people still don’t quite understand just what makes a hard court unique. Hard courts are […]