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Memorial Day Remembrances: Wars & Marquise Hill

Good Memorial Day evening to you. Memorial Day honors those who have died in military service to our country. As of today 3,452 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003. I ask that sometime during your day today, you pause for a moment and reflect on those who have died in service to our country in this most recent war, and in those wars of the past. When in reflection, please remember those 3,452 souls are those lost only in Iraq, and...

Sports Mash Up

This is something I could have written in January, but it's a cold snowy day here in New England. Snowing. April 15. Get 65 degrees in February, snow and cold in April. Maybe there is something to this climate change thing. Time to trade in the GMC for a Prius I guess. The Red Sox and Curt Schilling dismantled the Angels (or as some might be tempted to write, the "Angles") last night 8-0, after Friday night's 10-1 victory - so in two games the Sox have outscored the Angels 18-1....

Darryl Stingley: Dead at age 55

Sad news this morning for Patriots nation, the National Football League in general, and the family of Darryl Stingley. Stingley, known for having been the recipient of a Jack Tatum hit in a 1978 Exhibition Game between the New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders, passed away this morning at age 55 after having been found unresponsive in his Chicago home. The league ruled the hit legal, but it was doubtlessly a cheap and viscious hit in an utterly meaningless game. The then 26 year old Stingley...

8 Track Days

On a winter evening in 1976 I was leaving my second home, the hockey rink in Melrose after another 3 hour practice full of shooting drills and laps around the boards. I remember this night because it was the first time I had my own money, the cash I earned from shoveling out driveways. My friend Kenny and I still wearing our practice uniforms, sporting our Converse All-Stars, went to his mom’s car, walking with that really cool feeling of stepping on a sponge from being laced...

Chikin Ramen: Momofuku Ando (安藤百福)

On Friday, January 9, a person of import to many Americans quietly passed at age 96 due to heart failure. This man had a great influence in my own personal history and I was unaware of his influence until I learned of his death. Momofuku Ando was the founder of a Japanese food company called Nissin. His major invention: Instant Ramen Noodles. The 6 for $1 foodstuff that has kept more than this starving college student (after all, if it comes down to food or beer, one will...