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Softball not a hard sell

  [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he best baseball game I watched all year wasn’t a major league contest. It wasn’t a Section I playoff tilt, either. In fact, it wasn’t even technically “baseball.” On Monday night, softball teams from Oklahoma and Florida played the first game in a best-of-three College World Series finals. Seventeen […]

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The unicorn frappucino generation

[dropcap]D[/dropcap]o you know what a finsta is? Neither did I, because I am not between the ages of 13 and 34. Anyone 13 to 18 is “Gen Z,” and those aged 18 to 34 are the much-discussed millennials. Dan Coates studies them both. His company, yPulse, is a marketing research […]

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A drawn-out loss

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s long as I follow sports, I don’t think I’ll ever suffer another loss quite as painful Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. The storyline was about as rich as it gets in sports: My Red Sox, trying to end an 85-year curse, jumping out to an early lead against […]

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Beyond the headdress

When you think about Native Americans and fashion, your first thought might be (or at least mine was): Beads. Wait, no. Feathers! No; buckskin with fringe. What’s more Native American than buckskin pants worn by some high-cheeked hunter about to shoot a deer? Well… how about a Louis Vuitton arrow […]