This is my first fall away from professional sports journalism since 1975. And even in 1975, I was covering sports at Long Beach State. That is, I was doing sports for 33 consecutive fall seasons. And the really weird thing is … I don’t much miss it.

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Anyone who travels knows that dealing with money in another country is a tricky business. Trying to figure out what is a good price and what is bad, by U.S. standards, doing conversion rates in your head. That’s challenge enough. Then there’s the physical reality of someone else’s money. Size, shape, weight … dealing with […]

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