RIP

Way behind on links here. I’ll post a few tomorrow, but for now — I wrote a little something about Pat Summitt here.

From NBC SportsWorld:

One March day in 1928, Katherine Howe was chopping wood outside the family’s dirt-floor home in Floral, Saskatchewan, when she felt labor pains. Her sixth child. So, she went into the home and boiled some water. Then, she climbed into bed, delivered her own…

From NBC SportsWorld

Dearly beloved,

We are gathered here today

to get through

this thing called life.

His Kingdom

From NBC SportsWorld:

Bud Collins taught me to love tennis years before I ever picked up a racquet. He had such passion for tennis but more than that, he had that unique ability to transfer that passion to readers and listeners and, particularly, television viewers.

Yogi

From SportsWorld:

The image that lingers is of Yogi Berra looking at the sky. He wears a New York Yankees jacket and a New…

— Calvin Peete was miraculous. There’s no other way to say it, really. He died on Wednesday at the age of 71. I wrote a few words about him.

— I’m hoping most of you saw this already on Twitter or wherever, but I’m doing a little…