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How do you thank someone who has passed? Óscar Zamora was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in the mid-1970s. He wasn’t very good, to put it kindly. During his Wrigley Field tenure, Cubs fans would serenade him as he exited the game, often in mid-inning after having surrendered…

Two weeks after the funeral for Amerie Jo Garza, 10, the first of the Robb Elementary School students to be interred following the Uvalde mass shooting, I phoned the manager of my local Domino’s to inquire about a delivery job. Though I’ve never driven professionally and have been out of…

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…