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Article: Huddle Up: Spring sports: a cool breeze
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- April 19, 2009
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The start of the spring sports season used to make me miserable.
Be it a baseball or lacrosse game, I'd usually show up at an
assignment underdressed. Often it was because I'd spent most of the
day working in my yard or taking the dog for a walk and I'd figure a
windbreaker and a t-shirt or a sweater would provide plenty of
warmth. Invariably, I would be shivering by the second inning or
quarter, wondering why I was covering a game that can't even draw
flies.
After spending the fall and winter around the more sizable and
vocal football and basketball crowds, spring sports are
anticlimactic. It's like going from a U2 show to the town band's
weekly Wednesday night concert.
Well, I've finally ...