Playing Ball in Brooklyn

Sweep before you leap

The National Sport

A note on Aussie football with the season Down Under now underway

The Old Sneakers With Which We Mow the Lawn

A love song

Conscious Fouls

A season-ending note on roundball

The Hills and Dales of Their Father

Remembrance of a Saturday morning

What Is Snow Like?

For starters, it’s cold

In the Rain by the River

All that’s missing is an ark

On Scouting

A note

The Guy Who Wore His Son Like a Scarf

What’s more important than a game?

A Letter to the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh

(Who Just Issued a Fatwa Forbidding Chess in Saudi Arabia)

His Subtle Speech

A gentle nudge at the fork of the road

Boxing Out

A Note

The Spitter

Spare the frogs but not the scorpions

The Island

Where I’m from

The Eloquent Silence of It

Sometimes you don’t need to fill the gaps

His Listening

A celebration of a rare and extraordinary thing

The Bulletin Board of Your Head

Who has a ponytail at 70?

Crush

The way she flowed into that bus

Cinnabar

In praise of the One O’Clock Fox

Friday Morning Pop Quiz

(There will be no extra credit)

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