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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers Apparently, the allure of the locker room sleeping pod isn’t all it’s cracked up to be….
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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers Saturday at 7:13 p.m., a man I’ve never met changed my life. (To be honest, I…
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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers It’s less than a week into the baseball season, but since that’s really equivalent to about…
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By TEDDY ALLEN/DesignatedWriters All is not lost and gratitude drips off me like fleas off a junkyard dog but man oh…
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By TEDDY ALLEN/DesignatedWriters Americans and the world take it for granted now, what with the invention of the Walkman and the…
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By TEDDY ALLEN/Designated Writers We share with you today, in deference to an old and kind friend, a few cocktail recipes…
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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers REDNECK RIVIERA — It’s time for us all to come together and unite. No matter which…
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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers REDNECK RIVIERA — It was a sound, well-conceived strategy and I apologize to no man for…
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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers It doesn’t bother me that Washington’s Ryan Zimmerman is going to skip the 2020 baseball season…
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