Open Field
I can’t remember a time I was as frustrated with sports as I am right now, as I have been for the past week or so. I’ve thought a lot about this industry and how it fails women at almost every turn, and I tried to put some of those thoughts into writing.
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Friends, it is a TWO NEWSLETTER WEEK, a sight never before seen around here. Enjoy it while it lasts. As a kid, I was awful at the wall-sit. Whenever a…
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Hi everyone. Extremely unpredictably timed newsletter incoming. Have a great week! In the early 1990s, Lyle Alzado was diagnosed with terminal brain ca…
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This week’s newsletter has nothing at all to do with sports… but it does mention a baseball game. I’d like to use this space to occasionally write essa…
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Happy Memorial Day weekend! Here’s a baseball newsletter, which only contains a subtle plug for my podcast. In other podcast-plugging news: My producer…
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I come from a long line of people who refuse to retire. My dad, a vascular surgeon, is 66 and shows no signs of slowing down, and my grandpa, also a do…
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It's called "Crushed," and it's out now
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Today is Mardi Gras, and I happen to be in New Orleans, so I wrote a few words about my favorite day of the year in any year but this one. A million wo…
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