Thomas Boswell
Thomas Boswell
Thomas M. Boswellis an American sports columnist...
baseball football effort
Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
football baseball spring
Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.
football new-york fun
When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.
almost begins opening time
Time begins on Opening Day . . . (when) we know that something fine, almost wonderful, is about to (happen).
date fling june rather tacky tour wish
The PGA Tour will wish it had an entrenched June date here rather than a tacky fling with FedEx in Memphis.
golf major tournament watching
A Major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
against beat europe mixed scramble
If you can't beat Europe and you can't beat the Best-of-the-Rest, what's left? A mixed scramble against Tibet?
baseball art narrative-voice
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.
fun nice golf
Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.
golf majors tournaments
A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
golf knowing mind
As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.
baseball distance player
The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.
baseball often-is everyday
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
jobs umpires fbi-agents
A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.