Patrick Mahomes and his dad reminded me -- pitchers and catchers, coming up. Please see: george-vecsey.weebly.com/1/post/2023/02… via Weebly

For a few years, I thought my beloved Sony MiniDisc player was broken, Miracle Cure! Walk along wit... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/02… via Weebly

For a few years, I thought my beloved Sony MiniDisc player was broken, Miracle Cure! Walk along wit... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/02… via Weebly

The similar names overlapped in the news, so I looked up ancestry sites to see if Alex Murdaugh an... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/03… via Weebly

Can anybody explain Tucker Carlson's twisted admissions or Rupert Murdoch's late-in-life bursts of... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/03… via Weebly

Ugly incident in American soccer needs to be put in the past, particularly for a promising young p... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/03… via Weebly

Superb sports in NYT today -- Jeff McNeil loves WBC, even from bench; Tyler Kepner's chat with retired C Vogt on pitchers he handled; Kurt Streeter's column on "Coach Yo" of Miss. women, and Adam Zagoria's Pitino story with great quote from Coach Looie, age 98--"Naismith."

A Babe Ruth fan, I loved watching Shohei Ohtani win the world Classic. Please see: georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/03… via Weebly

Finally, the hammer sounded for Trump. Never mind about Opening Day. Please see: georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/03… via Weebly

How the pandemic has taught me to appreciate educational parts of TV. Please see: georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/04… via Weebly

Michael Spivak, a legendary mathematician, is recalled by the highly accomplished Marty Goldman, h... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/04… via Weebly

A tale of two reality-show hosts (from Queens!) One more dangerous than the other. Please see: georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/04… via Weebly

About reading the NYT coverage of the coronation -- and thinking about Russell Baker's classic mem... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/05… via Weebly

Local guy named Jim Brown passed on Friday. A few contemporaries recall him, on the field and off... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/05… via Weebly

With Metsian pride, some fans -- some players! --root for Oakland not to lose as many games as 196... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/05… via Weebly

Jacob deGrom and Roger Craig gave it all to Mets fans, half a century apart. My appreciation of bo... georgevecsey.com/1/post/2023/06… via Weebly

Sunday 8:30 AM. I'll be on NYT Digimentors with friends/colleagues Lawrie Mifflin and Claire Smith about demise of NYT Sports Section. @Digimentors website: digimentors.group/post/nytreadal……

End of NY Times sports section discussed by 3 longtime NYT staffers, deputy sports editor Jay Schreiber, longtime NBA scribe Mike Wise, and this old hand, on podcast by former contributor to NYT, Hillel Kuttler. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hille… (you don't need Spotify to listen..)

RIP, John Clancy, left, long-time restaurant figure. When Shaun opened Foley's, the patriarch would take his sumptuous Irish breakfast, and tell a story or two about the old days, Funeral Saturday County Cavan

California hometown sheds few tears for retiring McCarthy: ‘Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kevin’ theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d… Ummm, Merle Haggard? Buck Owens? McCarthy is a cipher, of course. But Bakersfield has done better, way better. George Vecsey