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George Vecsey

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There is nothing wrong with athletes coming back from retirement. George Vecsey

Nothing Back Athletes Wrong Retirement Coming

The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21. George Vecsey

The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another. George Vecsey

Interior Feelings Building Defense Addition Kicking Bad Only Feature Weekend Football Another Without Affairs Up Close Offense Get Personal Really Uses Chance Playoffs

This occasional sports columnist, who has been to his share of Super Bowls, had been glad to be home on Super Bowl Sunday, but the scary commercials made me want to be in the melee of the arena, where you are not aware of commercials. George Vecsey

Home Me You Sports Sunday Made Has-Been Super Super Bowl Super Bowls Scary Arena Glad Had Share Columnist Bowl Occasional Bowls Been His Commercials Where Want Who Aware

Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger. George Vecsey

War Time People World Money Had Sport Comfort Comfort Zone Got American Grew After Bigger Popular Why Zone World War World War II

All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know. George Vecsey

Leadership Confidence Field Enriched Our Our Lives All Our Lives Athletes Excellence Know Track Track And Field Female Hockey Whether Lives Necessarily

For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told. George Vecsey

Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral - but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless. George Vecsey

People Old Church Style Outdated More Nobody Like Cathedral Nonetheless Korean Go Queens Stadium Where Movie Place Theater Transformed Movie Theater Warehouse Fulfilled Ever

Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen. George Vecsey

Fans Moon King Big National Pulsating Plaza Softer Prettier Seems Bubbling Tennis Tickets Without Sitting Big Screen Stadium Screen Center Much Full Full Moon Jean Watching Night

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes. George Vecsey

Pure Stronger Kid City Carter Vanilla New York Tastes New York

Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe. George Vecsey

Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral. George Vecsey

It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness. George Vecsey

World Darkness Sunshine Light Past Sweet September Late Air Deterioration Rather Hazy Over October Sour Years Than Precisely Being Held Hard Series Baseball World Series Night Imagine

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others. George Vecsey

Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads. George Vecsey

Great Sports Pride National Every Other Addition Ways Minimal Some All-Star Over Years Itself Squads Hockey Being Bigger Us Skills Compared Event Suffers Four Olympic

It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions. George Vecsey

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country. George Vecsey

Old Tough Country Imitating Settlers Say Kids Dates Soon Sportsmanship Prairie Historians Preached Version Began Canada Handshake Upper-Class Hockey Old Country Urban Century English Who Imagined

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