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The Biggest Man in Racin’

Let me tell you a Tom Higgins story — everybody has a Tom Higgins story — but first, I should explain just how big a man Tom was. He had to be eight feet tall, and he had a voice that could shake leaves out of trees, and in Charlotte, N.C., before the banks glittered uptown and the…

Passions in American Podcast!

Modern Romonce

There’s a fundamental tension in spectator sports that goes a little something like this: The things a player or coach or team will do to win and the things that make the game fascinating and authentic and fun and are rarely the same. Much of the time they are at odds with each other.

Adjustments and Didi

For his first 25 games of the 2018 season — a span that ended on April 27 — Didi Gregorius was hitting .368/.459/.828 and was basically making a case for immortality. My pal Brian Kenny, who had the audacity not to include Gregorius umong his Top 10 shortstops, was spending roughly 95% of…