The 7.5 earthquake and resulting tsunami that shook Japan on New Year’s Day set the stage as the faultless metaphor that will reverberate throughout 2024 and beyond. With the impending presidential election aside, the tremors of improbability arrived a month…

When I first stepped onto the college quad, I was just another young man, making his way, surveying the lay of the land. For me, however, there were a few personal firsts playing out in real time to which none…

The budding narrative of this season’s college football landscape can be found not in Georgia, Alabama, or State College, Pennsylvania — even though the Nittany Lions should be formidable — but rather about 1,500 miles due west in Boulder, Colorado. …

On January 24, 2022, less than a month after Robert “Jazz” Jasinski celebrated his 60th birthday, his six-decade run on this third post from the sun came to an abrupt and unexpected close. It would not be until May 23,…

When I read that one Major League Baseball spring training game ended on a time clock violation, the Twilight Zone theme resonated — not to be confused with any twilight doubleheader. After all, doubleheaders have been deposited into the dustbin…