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Lindholm: I never missed one from the stands

Posted on December 18, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



Ted Williams was wrong. Hitting a baseball is not the hardest task in sports. Reffing a basketball game is.

A few years back, I made a foolish decision. I agreed to become a basketball referee — not a real ref, a certified official, but far worse. I agreed to officiate games in the Middlebury Adult Men’s League in which I had played for nearly 15 years.

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Matt Dickerson: Watching the squirrels beats shooting my gun

Posted on December 11, 2013 |
By Matt Dickerson



Every November, Vermont has a popular squirrel watching season. Tens of thousands of us avid squirrel watchers take to the woods and spend two weeks just sitting or quietly walking around watching squirrels.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Dancing in the streets

Posted on November 20, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



The Lions are in!

On Sunday, the Indomitable Lions, Cameroon’s national football team, defeated Tunisia 4-1 in a knockout game at Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, here in Yaounde. So Cameroon will be going to the Really Big Dance in Brazil next June, la Coupe du Monde.

They were dancing in the streets in Yaounde. The World Cup is a very big deal here, and just about everywhere else in the world too.

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Matt Dickerson: What Vermonters do in November

Posted on November 13, 2013 |
By Matt Dickerson



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Sports column by Andy Kirkaldy: Championship teams blend chemistry and talent

Posted on November 7, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



In the past two weeks I’ve heard and read a lot about team character and chemistry. It’s always struck me as an athlete and an observer the intangibles matter, and for sure three recent teams have done nothing to change my mind.

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Sports column by Matt Dickerson: Tree forts — they're more than just hunting stands

Posted on October 30, 2013 |
By Matt Dickerson



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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Johnny America meets the Internet

Posted on October 23, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



The summer of my 21st year, a long time ago, I worked in a machine factory in a small town in Switzerland, about 20 miles from Zurich.

I had worked the previous eight summers at a golf course in Maine, and I was ready for a change, an adventure, something independent.

My co-workers at the factory accepted me as a curiosity. We all wore the same blue common-laborer jumpsuit. For many, I was the first American they had ever known.

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Sports column by Matt Dickerson: Fishing and fall foliage

Posted on October 17, 2013 |
By Matt Dickerson



I have often thought — and said aloud — that a bad autumn for Vermont foliage is better than a great autumn anywhere else. Which is another way of saying that there is no such thing as bad foliage here. Even on those Octobers when we spoiled Vermonters complain that “the colors are dull this year,” our wooded hillsides are still quite beautiful.

The same might be said about fishing. Some say “a bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.” I say simply that there is no such thing as a bad day of fishing.

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Outdoor column by Matt Dickerson: Glacier blues and maple reds

Posted on October 3, 2013 |
By Matt Dickerson



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I first visited Banff National Park in 1985. I was 22, traveling with my parents, an older brother and his wife and two-year-old daughter, and one younger brother. We were working our way down the Rockies from a family reunion in British Columbia to the wedding in Boulder, Colo., of our other brother.

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Sports column by Karl Lindholm: Impossible Dream II – Red Sox surprise fans everywhere

Posted on September 26, 2013 |
By Karl Lindholm



It happened once before, a long time ago.

In the summer of 1966, the Red Sox were a bad team. They finished in ninth place with 72 wins and 90 losses, 26 games behind Baltimore, who won the AL pennant and then swept the Dodgers in the Series.

The following year, as many will recall, was the so-called “Impossible Dream” season. With new manager Dick Williams barking orders and Carl Yastrzemski playing out of his mind, the Red Sox were 92-70, won the AL pennant, and took the Cards to seven games in the World Series.

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