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Pro baseball in Vermont – at Centennial

By KARL LINDHOLM
Do you like professional baseball in Vermont?

If so, better get to a game pretty soon. Looks like the Vermont Lake Monsters are not long for the Green Mountain State.

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Clashes could be resolved with courtesy

By MATT DICKERSON
As an angler, my first conflict with kayakers came a few years ago in North Carolina on the Nantahala River near the Nantahala Outdoor Center, a popular destination offering kayak instruction, excellent water, and a kayak course.

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An easy answer for track DQ controversies

By ANDY KIRKALDY Before every varsity girls’ lacrosse game, the athletes line up for a stick check. The referees place a ball in the pocket of each of their sticks to make sure they are legal — not too deep — and thus don’t give the athlete a ball-control advantage.

That official ritual popped into my head when I read about the controversial disqualifications of a Burlington long jumper and a Champlain Valley girls’ relay running team at the May 30 New England qualifying meet in Essex.

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The Holy Land of brook trout

By MATT DICKERSON

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Bay-watch: the best show on television

By KARL LINDHOLM

When he hits a home run, he drops the bat, begins running immediately, circles the bases quickly, head bowed, then accepts the congratulations of his teammates with a modest fist bump or two, takes his seat on the bench, and the game goes on.

Jason Bay, the anti-Manny.

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The Beauty is in the Particulars

By Matt Dickerson

An ESPN talk show host recently complained about the sport of baseball. He argued that what mattered in sports were memories, particulars, and memories of particulars, and that baseball was all about numbers. Actually, he sounded slightly less articulate than that, and somewhat louder, angrier and whinier. Nonetheless, I agreed with the first half of what he said: Beauty is in the particulars.

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Kids learn about fishing (and game wardens)

By Matt Dickerson

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The short flight of the Bird

By Karl Lindholm

I saw The Bird before he was The Bird.

Here’s the story:

Many years ago (early 1970s), my good friend Jim was the basketball coach at Auburn High outside Worcester, Mass. Home in New England for a visit, I stopped to visit Jim and Candy on the night of the big hoop tilt between Auburn and Algonquin Regional High.

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Odds, ends and an annual May article

By Matt Dickerson

April is over — or it will be by the time most of you read this. May 1 is opening day of spring turkey season in Vermont. Seems like I’ve seen more turkeys this year than usual. Everywhere I drive. Cornfields and hay fields and lawns next to roads all over the county. Plenty of hens and toms both, keeping good company.

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Sports Fans

By Andy Kirkaldy

We sports fans have a championship-or-bust mentality. Where else but in the sports world can the Buffalo Bills or Minnesota Vikings, each of whom have played in, but lost, four Super Bowls, be considered some of the greatest losers of all time?

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