What will it take to convince substitute teachers like me to return to the classroom? Jobs have never been more available. Consider these emails, which arrived in my inbox in mid-December, near the peak of the Omicron onslaught: From Marilyn Adelberg, the human resources director who oversees the substitute-teacher program…

With the return of baseball (at last!), I offer this spring training story from the past: What did you drink for a pick-me-up today? In Port St. Lucie, Fla., this morning, the Mets’ 48-year-old infielder Julio Franco — the oldest major leaguer by more than four years — will slurp…

It’s easy to fall in love with Augusta National Golf Club, as we do each April at Masters time. Its flowering magnolias, sculpted gardens and fairways groomed as meticulously as Rihanna’s hair make it seem less a golf course than an arboretum. It’s a place made for quiet strolls, for…

The difference between cowboys and the rest of us is this: Around the dinner table the rest of us talk and eat. Cowboys, a more efficiently evolved species, simply eat. …

I think I speak for us all when I say, “Whew!” Clyde Drexler is still with us, still dancing like he’s setting a hard pick on “Dancing With the Stars.” The big guy with the “What? Me worry?” smile had a very tough Tuesday, rehearsing, then dancing the waltz. His…

That’s it? That’s all it took? The moderate and progressive Democrats saying, in effect, “You vote for our bill and we’ll vote for yours?” I’m not a flapping mouth on CNN. I’m not a pollster or political science professor. I’m simply a run-of-the-mill, registered Democrat. And I’m disgusted. Like many…

Eddie was doomed. Though he had studied all night, he knew he’d never pass his big Spanish test, let alone earn the C he sorely needed to stay afloat in class. He could never get the rules straight for conjugating verbs, and he had a lousy memory for spelling. Unable…

It was two days before The International, an annual PGA Tour event held for years in the Denver suburbs, and Duffy Waldorf’s game was unraveling like one of Kramer’s Seinfeld schemes. He and Dave Stockton Jr., then Tour rivals, had agreed to a preliminary challenge match at Buccaneer Bay, a…

We’ve come a long way since 1991, the time of this story, in championing women as equal and valued athletes — men and women, both. Davina Sanchez loved her Little League uniform. The Forest Park, Ill., 11-year-old stood in right field before her Saturday morning game, fluffing her navy jersey…