Cleveland baseball fandom has coursed through the family’s blood for generations.
—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
The thrust of Mann’s speeches is that Germany, after its plunge into evil, must engage in a spiritual reckoning, a new embrace of humanity, the kind that coursed through Goethe’s writing.
That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.
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Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
There are two areas in my garden where fern asparagus has been growing for more than four decades, having first spouted from seeds that had been deposited, no doubt, by birds.
These two great rivals never raced each other again.
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Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
After exchanging blows, the youngster raced on to a Djokovic drop shot before exquisitely returning with a faint backhand of his own, leaving his opponent with his hands on his knees in disbelief.
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