Until I was about 13 years old, I wanted to be Boston Red Sox left fielder Carl Yastrzemski. Then I was introduced to the music of Queen. I think the first Queen song I ever heard was "Killer Queen," but what really made an impression upon me was the Night at the Opera album, which I first heard in......ch...

Hello, baseball? It's me, Ted, your biggest fan. I'm the one who sticks up for you every year when someone writes another of those tedious "nobody likes baseball anymore, football's the national pastime" articles. When they complain about the length of games, you know, a half hour less than the average foo...

So said Sam Seaborn after questioning Supreme Court nominee Peyton Harrison on the West Wing. The questioning revealed Harrison to be unworthy of appointment to the highest court in the land. Just as Brett Kavanaugh has shown himself to be unworthy not only of a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land,...

He smiled a lot. And he meant it. That's what I remember about Corey Dykes. You can always tell the difference between a real "glad to see you" smile and the phony kind. Corey's was the real thing. The truth is, I didn't know him that well. He worked for a while in our ad sales department at the Finger Lak...