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The original "In-Laws": * "Tse-tse flies the size of eagles. They swoop down and grab small children." (Or something like that.) * "Serpentine! Serpentine!" So many characters, so many marks left behind.

You know the old saw about walking a mile in someone's shoes? I walked two miles, and handed one of the sneakers to Colin. Granted, his family dynamic is younger than mine, but the personal and professional situations aren't all that different. It isn't easy, folks. For anyone who has been in...

Winnipeg Sun quoting one source, but trumpeting that the deal is done: http://www.winnipegsun.com/2011/05/20/thrashers-coming-to-winnipeg

Indeed, the Herald-Leader link isn't functional -- even tried it through Google. Buyouts offered to some. http://www.wfpl.org/2011/05/10/herald-leader-cuts-include-news-staff/ Amen to the above wishes about friends there.

One of the most kind-hearted and soft-spoken men in modern column-writing, if not all of newspaperdom. Married to a former Miss Iceland. The two of them were a hoot as traveling companions. The obit should've ended in the form of his beloved letter columns from his later years. Dear Dixie...

Stay in the business long enough, and you'll find yourself working airplane crashes, 9-11, a fitness-club shooting and more. A journalist does what a journalist must. And, yes, a good sports writer can be a great journalist, when asked to serve. Rick and Chico -- although I'm biased because...

Uh, MMII: It is Fennis Dembo, not Dennis Fembo. He of the infamous quote about being African-American in Wyoming: "I mean, I'm vivid!" http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1066706/4/index.htm I personally miss Benny Dees....

A bit of history and context (i hope): "Somnambulant" is a word unleashed upon the Post-Gazette sports readership several times yearly by several different columnists, dating to the late Bruce Keidan in 1984, at least. Perhaps the late Phil Musick invoked it before him as well. So it isn't...

Banquet tales by Myron and Rocky aside, the "Emperor Chas" (another Cope-ism) was a renaissance man in the 70s. He became a wine connosieur at a time whem most Americans - long before today's fad- thought a good bottle of wine was TJ Swan. He took an interest in boating, and soon after made a...

We've lost two brilliant men, brilliant writers, brilliant lights: Bruce Keidan and Jim Kelley. They way Bruce knew baseball and Jim knew hockey, the way they treated their friends and admired colleagues, the way they reported -- they were standard bearers for anyone who truly aspires to fulfill...

Geez, after a 25-year career that covers the spectrum here, you would think someone might find a more scintillating -- if not more apt -- description than "backup Pirates beat writer?" As for an answer: stay tuned.

Busting your tale? That's a creative-writing pun, right?

all grand suggestions. Hyman's, the Battery, the Sumter cruise, the bridges, the Yorktown, the Hunley, the aquarium, pralines and ice cream while walking through the Market...my family has been checking off and oft repeating much of this list every summer but three since my 21-year-old firstborn...

echoing above sentiments: this is an old issue over which the NFL's new regime apparently decided it had enough bad pub. here's a sidebar from a Mike Webster series our paper did almost five years ago: former Raiders lineman Curt Marsh, one of a scant few ex-players on permanent disability...

Corky Ramirez: The Nicklaus incident involved not Furman but the late Tom McCollister. T-Mac, whom Nicklaus and many other golfers liked and respected, wrote a little negative ditty about Jack among his AJC pre-Masters evaluation of contenders and also-rans. So i heard, second-hand, Jack crossed...