by Steve Love | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog
Photo by Christopher Ott on Unsplash Past flaws and foibles can follow us, wrap us in their tentacles and shake us until we cry. Our sins and flaws are like the past itself. They’re never dead. They are not even past. If anyone doubted Faulkner, social media,...
by Steve Love | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog
Photo from Silodrome.com This 1950s Cushman Eagle is a shade less than pink and with no front panel but resembles my ride The Mystery of the Pink Motor Scooter had no precise beginning and may have no conclusive ending. It exists—bright, flashy, significant—in the...
by Steve Love | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog
Racist hooligans on social media and in the streets of England turned The Beautiful Game’s naming failures into pimples compared to their infected-boils-of-a-reaction to three missed penalty-shootout tries that decided the delayed Euro 2020 Championship. In a...
by Steve Love | Jul 10, 2021 | Blog
If soccer is The Beautiful Game—crowned with its elegant, simple, and yet descriptive title—why didn’t someone, all those years ago in England and America, have the decency to give each of the various football games a beautiful name of its very own? Or, failing that,...
by Steve Love | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog
Tulsa World Photo courtesy of Barry Lewis The Tulsa World’s Barry Lewis (right) and Mike Brown talk with Bixby star Braylin Presley Editor’s Note: This column by Barry Lewis, Tulsa World high school sports editor, appeared in The World and online, as part...
by Steve Love | Jul 5, 2021 | Blog
Photo by Elvis Ray on Unsplash If the coronavirus pandemic had reared its ugly head three decades earlier, I might never have forsaken writing sports columns. I loved sports but hated the travel required to cover it in the big-time manner that the Akron Beacon Journal...
