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  • Gotta Run

    Gotta Run

    I am a runner. Have been since 1984. I remember reading about the first NYC Marathon back in 1970 and asking my Mom why anyone, much less 127 people, would want to run over 26 miles. “Because they are meshuga (a little light in the head),” she replied. Made sense. Well, in the last 15… Continue reading

  • Got Women’s Sports?

    Got Women’s Sports?

    When I was growing up in the Sixties, it was generally assumed that boys were smarter, and better, than girls. That girls were inherently inferior beings. Having been raised by a bad-ass single Mom, I was always somewhat skeptical of the notion. More than a half century later, not much has changed, even when it… Continue reading