Time to Shut It Down
Once you commit to a weekly game, it becomes what you set your watch to. The rest of life is just what goes on in between or threatens to interrupt the Saturday ritual.
Safe at First: Mantle’s Miracle Slide in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series
It seemed to happen way too fast. As if time wasn’t meant to unfold this way. As if this was a flip movie in the little red pocket-book whose pages had slipped too quickly from beneath your thumb.
This Day in Sports: 3149 BCE
So be it, the King Tabouli replied. On the second morning from the morrow, at the crowing of the cock, you shall climb to the top of the Sacred Mound, and from those heights contend as you will.