by Abe Wyett Major League baseball has been in decline for some time. The game’s Golden Age – -with stars like Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, and Willie Mays– is a distant memory. The swinging summers of Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGuire feel almost as remote. But lately, the sport has shown signs of […]

“We want kids to know it’s okay to stand up to people.”

by Abe Wyett A polarized country, and thousands upon thousands of deaths, are rooted in eight words: “the right of the people to bear arms.” That right, the right to own weapons, may be the United States’ most contentious debate. The NRA waves copies of our Constitution. Anti-gun activists respond with slogans like “it could […]

By Abe Wyett It’s difficult to find anyone in sports more disliked than the referee, the voice of impartial and fair play. Good calls are seldom rewarded, and missed calls are invariably met with animosity. Even their uniforms–those ridiculous striped jerseys–seem to invite abuse and insult. Fans demean referees, lampoon their intelligence, call them zebras, […]

By Abe Wyett There are moments in sports, snapshots in time, that create heroes: a buzzer-beating shot; a walk-off home run and the casual flip of the bat; a hail-mary pass, improbably caught and indefinitely celebrated. Last May, in game six of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Boston  Celtics guard Derrick White became one of […]