Chip Shots: Thank You Celtics (City), And L.A.
HBO and max have put together a docuseries, Celtics City, beginning with the Boston Celtics’ pre-dynasty years in the early 1950s to (at the point of the seventh episode) the current millennium.
Chip Shots: Thoughts From Somewhere Else
Last week I referenced a fictional character from Alabama (Forrest Gump). This week I was in Alabama enjoying the Gulf shores of Orange Beach, Alabama watching my adult children see – for the first time – one of the United States’ coasts instead of the Great Lakes, Salt Lake, or some lake in the Rockies.
Chip Shots: That’s All I Have To Say About That
Forrest Gump made the sentence famous. The character played by Oscar-winner Tom Hanks kept everything simple, and ended his thoughts with, “…that’s all I have to say about that.” I have a lot of thoughts, but not much to say about any of them (unlike the 1,100+ words I tore off last weekend).
Dittmar, Burgh Discuss COVID Spring Season That Never Was
Five years ago, at this particular time the Northern Indiana area already had its schoolkids at home e-learning because the schools were shutdown after a virulent and deadly COVID-19 outbreak. Next weekend approaches the fifth anniversary of the end of Spring Break where Warsaw Community Schools, along with schools nationwide, determined all students should shelter in place for the remainder of the school year.
Chip Shots: Writing About Writing
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts, or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
Chip Shots: Spring, Ugh!
I hate the first six weeks of spring. I also woke up on the wrong side of the bed Friday morning.
Chip Shots: NAIA Basketball, For A Change
Looks like the three-week “real” NCAA Division I (D1) season starts this coming Tuesday.
Chip Shots: No Matter What, Appreciate
Friday night, the last Friday night for high school boys’ basketball games this postseason, the Times-Union readership had six teams in IHSAA boys’ basketball sectional semi-finals. Each had either a clear shot or a puncher’s chance at making and advancing last night and even winning its sectional title tonight.
