Well, Boston did not get the go-ahead for the 2024 Summer Olympics, while an all-too-likely snowless Beijing got the thumbs-up to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. I say good for Beijing, and good for Boston!

There are reasons, to be sure, why Boston might have been a good choice: the proximity of water venues, dormitories to house the athletes at numerous colleges and universities, the highly likely chance of pretty good weather, a variety of fields and sporting facilities, and a city that...

There’s a great little bakery-sandwich shop I often go to, where on any given day, I order one of several favorite items and, then, when the weather is accommodating, sit outside and start turning the pages of the book I’m reading.

But sometimes the surrounding conversations of those nearby is more interesting or, perhaps, just a tad more intrusive than the dialogue of the characters I’ve been following. Or maybe, and there’s probably more truth to this than I would like to admit, I’m...

I was watching television that night when the banner ran across the bottom of the screen with the news that Frank Gifford, the Hall of Fame flanker back for the New York Giants in the 1950s-60s, had just passed away.

I’ve been long removed from growing up in Norwalk, Conn., and what-were-to-me at the time, the glory days of New York Giants football.

They were a colorful and classy bunch. Charlie Conerly, Sam Huff, Jimmy Patton, Dick Lynch, Rosey Grier, Kyle Rote, Alan Webb, Del...

Technical difficulties with my laptop prevented the posting of my weekly blog last week. But this is a new week, and a new blog, and I'm back at it. Here we go.

It's been a good summer, a really good summer, and while there are still a few days to go I'm pretty certain it will be hard to top the day I had this past Thursday. Here's how it went.

Arrived at my friend’s house in Bourne, Mass., on Cape Cod Wednesday afternoon. It was a quiet and early-to-bed night. We had a busy day ahead...