For the past 35 years, I've been a baseball official. I went to professional umpire school for it in the...
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Read moreDetailsIt was the spring of 1992 and I was a member of the Marching Mizzou basketball pep band from the...
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Read moreDetailsIn the early 1800's, Europeans began to adapt the games of cricket and rounders into a new game that would...
Read moreDetailsAs you've probably noticed by the commercials every 12 seconds on TV, the Olympics are almost here. Let's set aside...
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Read moreDetailsThe sign on the door read "DINING ROOM CLOSED--STAFF SHORTAGE." The note went on to explain that the drive thru...
Read moreDetailsRecently, the Discovery Channel bought Time Warner, or Time Warner bought Discovery channel. Or something. It was a $43 billion...
Read moreDetailsFirst off, I'd like to say that this wasn't my best column. Lots of things going on and I'm not...
Read moreDetailsWebster's defines change as "to transform or convert." Gladly, some things have changed in the number of years since I've...
Read moreDetailsHow can they cram so much into one week? Just this week alone, I've got my son's graduation, our end...
Read moreDetailsIt's not like I was expecting a parade. Well, I mean, I don't really know what I was expecting. However,...
Read moreDetailsIt's graduation season once again. And, for me, this is a very special one because I am the father of...
Read moreDetailsEvery Friday, I wake up to a text. No matter if it's before dawn, the text is always there waiting...
Read moreDetailsAt one point on Sunday there were three active shooter events happening on my Twitter feed - the most recent...
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Read moreDetailsThis was the first week of Major League Baseball. As we've mentioned in the past couple of weeks, many of...
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