Category Archives: sports

has a ball or stick and is not murder or war; their were or are bubblegum cards or tobacco cards to exploit it; was cool when i was young but is now increasingly sadly undermined by greed;

MO!

Posted on August 12, 2018 by markweiss86
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Big month for Mary Halvorson

Posted on August 8, 2018 by markweiss86

June 14,2018 at SFJazz center And on cover of Downbeat New cd Codegirl

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Drekmeier For President

Posted on August 4, 2018 by markweiss86

ling story Edit to add: long story. Stupid cheap Costco progressives.

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Linsanity, Duboisity

Posted on August 3, 2018 by markweiss86

I had read about this but never until just now saw the video of Jeremy Lin playing on the new basketbal court at the new Mitchell Center in Palo Alto. And Greg Scharff, then the mayor and still on council, … Continue reading →

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Is Jim Tyrer the first CTE suicide?

Posted on August 3, 2018 by markweiss86

I met a man last weekend who told me he had a son my age, named HS, who died recently, at age 50 or so. He said his son played three years of football for the local high school team, … Continue reading →

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Artist studio, Palo Alto

Posted on August 2, 2018 by markweiss86
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Sorry to bother you

Posted on August 1, 2018 by markweiss86

For listeners of “Welcome to Night Vale,” the series has a familiar sound; it borrows a structure from vintage radio drama, and it’s pumped with fantasy elements. But it also stakes a claim to a cultural conversation that’s still unfolding. … Continue reading →

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Would that it were: the Olympics of shaggy dog stories

Posted on July 31, 2018 by markweiss86

Hi, Cammie. I’m a Dartmouth ’86 and former sportswriter digressing from something else to send you a quick greeting. (I’m researching the Palo Altan Rink Babka, a discus athlete from 1960 Rome and a painter, apparently — he’s in a … Continue reading →

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If Matt were a baller he’d write a parody of “Laid” the way that the Liverpool punters turned “Oh Sit Down” into a a Mo Salah jam

Posted on July 30, 2018 by markweiss86

This only makes sense if you know who Messi is:

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I’d like to post here an excerpt of Sara J. Jackson of northeastern on Tommy Smith and John Carlos backed with my photos of the monument to them at San Jose State by Rigo whose work I once moved in my late father’s Mitsubishi van, dig?

Posted on June 29, 2018 by markweiss86
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