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The 2023 New Hampshire Divisional Championships featured six meets, all of which belonged to the Coe-Brown boys
Aidan Cox closed out his final points-scoring high-school day with two state-meet records
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The Nuggets are in their first NBA finals. The Celtics could be their opponent, but face formidable odds
A 3-2 deficit in best-of-seven-series doesn't look that bad, unless it started as a 3-0 deficit
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If nothing else, all of this shit forms a trail leading to the same small pool of deviants
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Sha'Carri Richardson gets lots of attention. How good is she really?
That she's an incredible sprinting package is obvious; that she and others are being carefully groomed may not be
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A non-thematic release characterized throughout by rudeness and reasonably smooth scene transitions
"I just wish people would realize that it's literally the government vs. the people"
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Confession time!
We'll* see if unloading some stuff I've been holding inside provides a more lasting catharsis this time
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Colorado State Champs: Stutzman puts on a show, a nation-leading (sort of) 45.36, and a dramatic state record in the long relay
This might just be the best way to stage a high-school track and field state-championship meet, given the resources
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The rise of the relentlessly curt "critic" of persistently terse "grifters"
A common theme among the "we, we, we" crowd: a misplaced, unexamined, and crippling trust in government
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Trail Runner's cure for anxiety and depression: self-contradictions, incoherent waffling, and overt favoritism, all of which are sometimes necessary
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In roughly increasing order of target-audience participation, active or passive, in grim reality. And prison for people like the Clintons and their pals…
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Disliking your flaws doesn't make you a perfectionist, especially when you deny or embrace them
Society is littered with lazy, mediocre performers curiously addicted to the notion of excellence
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Aw, cut the old gaffy bastard some slack. Also, people seem to be grasping that to the White House, "diversity" means a rainbow coalition of…
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