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...Night Football" team brought a smile to my face. Don Ohlmeyer, who revolutionized televised sports with MNF in the 1970s, was looking for a new personality, someone who would make the broadcasts interesting and hopefully controversial. In other words, he was looking for another Howard Cosell. Cosell, the biggest catch of Ohlmeyer's life, was so polarizing that "people would buy television sets just to throw bricks at him when he came on screen...
...city. The price of a subway token, after all, is like the price of baseball cards or a gallon of milk: it's one of the measures by which each generation of Americans complains about the next. For every one of us, the day will come when we will catch ourselves reminiscing to our children--or maybe just to first-years --about the days when a T ride only cost 85 cents (and when the bleacher seats at old Fenway Park were only...
...shallow tidal waters near Knight Inlet Lodge, in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, I catch sight of two grizzlies, the first I have ever seen in the wild. Four-year-olds, they hang out and fool around, rather like human teenagers. Then five more bears stroll out of the forest--a female with a golden cub and another mother with two cubs. The mothers nurse the 18-month-old cubs and scoop up some of the hundreds of thousands of salmon on their way up the inlet to spawn and die. Then another bear appears, followed by tiny triplets...
...importance of good guides is confirmed again on my second afternoon at the lodge. In a boat on Johnstone Strait, we catch sight of three orcas, otherwise known as killer whales. Paul Chaplow, who has spent the past 10 years in these waters, reveals the identities of the three orcas. What were moments ago little more than anonymous dorsal fins zipping by in dark waters became R2, a 62-year-old mom, and her two sons, R3, age 44, and R12, 34. Because their society is matriarchal, the sons will remain with their mother until she dies. The whales, remarkable...
...salad sandwiches past their sell-by date. The most reliable thing is courtesy Rolaids in the bathroom. Bedtime is just something you dream about until well past midnight. Air Gore was a grumpy place, and the alpha male in earth tones with his earnest town-hall meetings couldn't catch a break for much of the campaign...