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Of course, any city goes crazy when their team wins a game in a world championship series. But watching the Toronto fans go berzerk in beating the just-about-unbeatable Warriors in Game One brings joy.
A stepchild in the NBA, the Raptors with their cool Jurassic Park area where fans who can’t get tix bond to watch on jumbo screens have never known this level of success—and it’s wonderful to witness their frenzy. ... See more

Bill Buckner has died. Age 69. Buckner was for 22 years a Major League Baseball star but after that wretched bounce of the 1986 World Series game for the Red Sox took the ball through Buckner’s legs and into the outfield, it’s the only play he is remembered by. There were several errors by the Red Sox in that game. And then they failed to clinch the World Series in a subsequent game that series but Red Sox fans sent death threats and Bill Buckner for the rest of his life could not escape the question: How did it feel to make one of the biggest blunders in the history of sports?
Buckner actually handled himself very well over the years but the question never died….he stepped out onto the grass at Fenway more than 20 years later. The crowd who once reviled him gave him a long, emotional standing ovation. The class of the man, the distinction of his career, were undeniable.
Bill Buckner, you indeed deserve to Rest in Peace. ... See more

A mish mash today:

Witnessing Tiger once again command The Masters was one of the most thrilling sports moments of our time. Never say never.

The Mueller Report has been an extravagant waste of time and resources. We may have an ignorant narcissist running the White House who has no doubt committed a slew of inappropriate blunders but it seems nothing of high crimes and misdemeanors. Let’s move on. Let’s focus on 2020.

My mom would have turned 94 this week. Lucy was from Paris and the scenes from Notre Dame brought memories of Lucy flooding back. Dors bien, Maman.

Wishing you a wonderful Passover and Easter...or just an unattached weekend. ... See more

Not only French citizens but citizens of the world
gasped to see the iconic cathedral of Notre Dame
ablaze yesterday.
Yes, emotions run deep for many who look to the
famous edifice as both soldier of the Catholic faith and as grand silhouette of the Parisian sky.

Yet only 24 hours later, there is great hope that all is not lost, in part because many grand facets of the cathedral were spared. And there is also the perspective that this monument, throughout its 850 year history, has never been a permanent, static structure.

There was a collective heartbreak when the big spire
toppled yesterday. But we perhaps forget that many
Parisians were dismayed by the addition of that spire
in the 19th century, the claim being that it was not at all in keeping with the original medieval architecture.

It will no doubt be several years, with input from all kinds of historians, scholars and architects, but despair not.
Notre Dame will be rebuilt, as that project was already at least in part under way, and it will be more glorious than ever.

Just think of the magnificent historic structures destroyed in recent times by terrorists. ISIS militants have turned several of the beautiful avenues and arches of the ancient city of Palmyra to rubble, never to be resurrected.

Notre Dame Cathedral has suffered grave injuries, but she lives on. She stands strong. And one day she will exhibit both her past and her future splendor like never before ? @teribocko @ Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris ... See more

The wonderful theater of Key West, The Studios, has invited
me to perform a one-night engagement of my one-woman show “The Courge to Fail”.

If you just happen to be in the magical southernmost city of the U.S. this Wednesday, April 3, I’d surely love to look out into the audience and see you there.
Link to tix below. https://tskw.org/the-courage-to-fail-an-evening-of-storytelling-with-diana-nyad/ ... See more

Sportscaster Tracy Wolfson is exactly
my height.
She’s standing next to University of Central
Florida basketball player Tacko Fall, 7’6”.
I watch peoples’ faces when I show them this
photo…every time, eyebrows hit the hairline
and eyes pop open like Tweety Bird. Wow. ... See more

News professionals say it every day. The list
of immoral vulgarities spoken by our president
since he took office is so long, so egregious, they
would be hard put to select the most offensive,
the most inappropriate among them.

But this week’s lashing of John McCain has to rank
among his foulest remarks. Go ahead and argue
against Nancy Pelosi’s proposals. Poke fun at
Beto O’Rourke’s hand gestures. But what is the
impetus for expressing adamant dislike and blatant
disregard for an American senator, a war veteran,
who has recently passed away?

With all the pressing issues of the office, why would this president spend a great deal of valuable time this week digging up his previous hateful vitriol against a dead man many Americans categorize as a hero?

Trump is a zero class individual. Didn’t his parents
teach him the basics of decency? And isn’t a factor of great leadership behaving in an exemplary, principled way? Are these the kinds of words, is this the fibre of character we want from the supposed leader of our nation?

It is imperative that we remove this vile creature from the White House. Impeachment be damned. It’s complicated and takes too many tributary twists to achieve. Let’s ride a bold current right through the Oval Office door and elect a dignified individual come 2020. ... See more

Are you in South Florida? Join us April 1st-5th for EverWalk Key West!

Become part of Diana Nyad's health-promoting EverWalk in Key West — thanks to an inspirational invitation to readers from the legendary endurance athlete, who in September 2013 became the first person to swim from Cuba to Key West without a shark cage. Diana and her Cuba Swim expedition leader Bon... ... See more

Your dialogue on the ‪Varsity Blues‬ case has been robust and you all seem to be in accord on two basic themes. And I am with you on both.

First, and most important, yes, this scandal folds into the broader, literally centuries-old syndrome of class money privilege.
Is it right, that a kid who cannot justifiably qualify for entrance to a fine school be automatically admitted because his grandfather’s name is chiseled into the facade of the campus library?
Have most of the Olympic Games cities won those bids on the back of bribing the selection committee? Do children of privilege wind up with plum internships and high entry-level jobs, while the rest of their peer group go through the normal application processes, with usually a poor chance of success?

The list could go on ad infinitum. But we the court of public opinion smells out an even higher level of offensive entitlement with cheating on entrance exams and paying an athletic director to admit a water polo player who has never and will never play water polo.

The legal spider web starting to fan out now will be complicated. Class action suits are being filed by parents whose children worked legitimately but were denied acceptance to some of these schools where the illegitimate kids gained dishonest acceptance. Are the schools themselves responsible?
Deciphering which of a student's parents were the culprits is in play.

And that brings us to the second point with which I agree with you.

Many of you criticized me, as well as most news sources, for attaching only the two actress celebrity photos accused in the case.
Why not post images of their husbands, each of them also celebrities? What about shaming any of the other 40 or so of the privileged accused? I agree 100%. The celebrity status of these two individuals, their gender status, has nothing to do with the crimes committed. This is an issue of the abuse of money and privilege. Period. ... See more