Matt Laczkowski
97 stories by Matt Laczkowski
- There’s a chance a current kid in the league has a grandpa who played for Bo, who saw him, in his younger days hoisting up those hook shots, smiling.
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"Clear the mechanism."
"What I'm talking about is a game… A game that can't be won only played…"
"See, the trick is ... to find your
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"I have a dream today..."
And see a nightmare on the horizon.
Talk about a week of oddly-coupled bookends.
Monday marked the observation o
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What this new wave of athletes are doing — and not just in basketball — is impressive for certain. -
Happy New Year.
Hopefully this finds you just back from the gym, or enjoying a slow start to your last day off before heading back to work after a lon
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Happy Boxing Day.
Need a refresher? (I wrote about it a year ago.)
Boxing Day is a British Bank Holiday borne from a tradition of boxed gift givi
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For better or worse, I think I unwittingly take some of my fashion cues from my grandfather. He whose house was painted a shade of salmon on the outside, wi
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This week's inbox included a note from a local octogenarian letting me know that he reads the Sun for sports and reverts to the Times for the
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"Greetings, Friends!" is The New Yorker's annual ode to the holiday season; its 56 rhymed couplets culling together and artfully incorporating the nam
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To those who wish that I'd "stick to sports," your wishes have been granted, at least for this week.
You won. Literally. And I've never felt so sad.
Far be it from me to take a stance on a topic about which I know little, and/or with regard to a fight in which I do not have a dog.
For the better par
Far be it from me to take a stance on a topic about which I know little, and/or with regard to a fight in which I do not have a dog.This week marks the 50th anniversary of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." It was on Oct. 27, 1966, that Lucy first pulled her cruel ball-fake on poor
It was quite a week for careers in sports coming to an end. Tamika Catchings. Kevin Garnett. Vin Scully.
Doing the same job for 67 years sounds daunti
I believe I've occasionally mentioned my Tar Heel bias here.
I am a proud alumnus of "the university of the people, for the people, by the people." Th
Sitting to write this on Saturday morning, I certainly can't offer up any thoughts or impressions, a recap, or any takeaways from the Ravens' game on Sunday
On the impact and importance of the
But for those lucky few with the post-Labor Day start date — everybody's
I remember, growing up, a friend whose family had a pool had a sign that read, "We don't swim in your toilet. Please don't pee in our pool."The EPL is back. A-Rod is gone. Phelps, Ledecky, and Biles are golden. What a week it was, that week that was. File this one as/under "dispatches from the road," as work is taking me to Charlotte by way of Gainesville, by way of Tampa, twice. The gym has a certain smell. Actually, each gym — if you've spent enough time in them without crowds, without teammates — has a smell all its own.I wonder if Lefty won. (I'm writing this one with Lefty in the lead, waiting to tee off for his third round of the British Open.)
- Ninety-plus-degree temperatures for as far out as the forecast goes. Welcome to the heat of summer.
- Happy Fourth of July. The official holiday of fireworks and all-u-can-eat frankfurters; a day of grilling out and chillingout.
- With fears over feces in the water taking a No. 2 (if you will) to bigger fecundity-related fears borne from the threat of Zika and would-be babies born with
- A lot of Father's Day narratives will unfold between the time I submit this on Sunday morning and the time you read it on Monday (or maybe even Tuesday or
- Bill Simmons is back. Though, in fairness, and much like the argument over the return of Bob's Big Boy in "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" -- in
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- Happy Memorial Day. Here's to the start of summer, and your much-deserved day off.
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- I spent the latter part of last week in Chicago for work, attending the NBA Pre-Draft Combine (for my day job). As I believe I've mentioned here before, the
- Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul.
- The average golfer's handicap is just over 16, though you couldn't tell from the average golfer's reaction to each errant shot, missed put, and/or sheer shank
- Given the timing, let me be the last to comment that "it looks like spring has finally arrived."
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