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I didn't read the Rocky Mountain News today. Oh, boy.
Nor tomorrow and tomorrow.
What comes to mind is poetry, how absurd. Lines that were committed to memory for a college grade back when the written word had value, a B-minus as I recall.
Stop all the clocks, shut off the telephone . . . let the mourners come.

More than one cynic has suggested the biggest problem Congress has in dealing with the recession is that our elected lawmakers wouldn't know there is a recession if somebody didn't tell them.

Dear Babe: I have a kid's baseball glove signed by former Boston Red Sox player Jim Rice. The glove was signed in 1978 when I was 11 years old, and I have a picture to prove it. Now that Rice has been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame how much has the glove increased in value? -- April Peavey, Hollis, N.H.

The driftwood is stacking up on the beach, available for collecting, and it includes Michael Vick, Manny Ramirez, Pacman Jones, Plaxico Burress, Terrell Owens and maybe Alex Rodriguez.
One or more of these talented but troubled souls could land in the Bay Area. Do we want any of them? Can we handle any of them?

The driftwood is stacking up on the beach, available for collecting, and it includes Michael Vick, Manny Ramirez, Pacman Jones, Plaxico Burress, Terrell Owens and maybe Alex Rodriguez.
One or more of these talented but troubled souls could land in the Bay Area. Do we want any of them? Can we handle any of them?

I'm not ready to blame Alex Rodriguez for giving baseball a black eye.
He's not the sport's first superstar to gain an edge by cheating and, besides, baseball has been taking punches thrown by its own for the past 90 years.

]Dear Babe: I have a Boston Red Sox baseball that I believe is from 1950 or '51. It is signed by Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Clyde Vollmer, Buddy Rosar, Bill Evans, Mel Parnell. Fred Hatfield and Dom DiMaggio among others. -- Charlie Sullivan, Danvers, Mass.
It looks like the Red Sox ball is from 1950. That was Evans second and last season in the Majors and the only year he was in Boston.

Weed, the Breakfast of Champions.
I've been waiting a long time -- 11 years to be exact -- for the sports world to seize on that concept, but no one's had the guts. Now, far later than I expected, we've entered pot's perfect storm.

Dear Babe: What would an authentic Bobby Brown baseball with a COA and hologram from STAT Authentic be worth? It is signed by the following 500 HR Club members: Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Mickey Mantle, William McCovey, Ted Williams, Ernie Banks and Eddie Matthews. -- T.J., Chicago.

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