Columns

Write This Down: Keeping your own score does not make you more noble, says Frank Deford.

Sports

Take Golf Out Of The Rough, Into The 21st Century

9:20am June 05, 2013

by Frank Deford

When the St. Jude Classic opens on Wednesday in Memphis, Tenn., Frank Deford will be paying attention to the action on the course. He has some gripes about the requirement that players must tally their own shots.

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Student newspapers may be the latest victims of social media.

Education

High School Newspapers: An Endangered Species

2:49pm June 01, 2013

by Scott Simon

The New York Times reported this week that only 1 in 8 of New York's public high schools still has a student newspaper. National figures are only a bit better. NPR's Scott Simon says student newspapers are the latest victims of social media.

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Sports

One More Swing: 'Casey At The Bat'

11:03am May 29, 2013

by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Frank Deford puts aside his gripes this week to pay tribute to the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, first published in the San Francisco Examiner 125 years ago June 3.

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Sports

No. 1s: The Latest Greatest Of All Time

6:19am May 15, 2013

by Frank Deford

The NBA will soon crown another team as the best. And another MVP will be named. But commentator Frank Deford says such titles of greatness are fleeting.

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Mothers somehow know when we've been bad, but when times are tough, they also have our back.

Health & Safety

Mom's X-Ray Vision Also Sees The Best In Us

2:10pm May 11, 2013

by Scott Simon

Mothers know us better — sometimes better than we know ourselves. As any child will tell you, they really do have eyes in the back of their heads. When times are tough, they also have our back.

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Sports

Ladies, Want Women's Sports To Get More Attention? Pony Up

11:47am May 09, 2013

by Frank Deford

Some critics say that women's sports aren't treated the same as men's sports when it comes to coverage, marketing and advertising. Frank Deford has some thoughts about why that is, and how it can change.

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Get Off My Lawn! And Other Grumblings About Sports Today

10:51am May 01, 2013

by Frank Deford

Frank Deford's friend "the Sports Curmudgeon" reflects on some of the things that bother him about the sports world.

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The Pitch For More No. 42s

2:46pm April 17, 2013

by Frank Deford

There's more buzz than usual this year around baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who made his major league debut on April 15, 1947. But commentator Frank Deford says there isn't enough buzz in college athletics to help shape the Robinsons of the future.

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Tiger At The Masters: The Juncture Of Exhilaration And Peril

7:20am April 10, 2013

by Frank Deford

When Tiger Woods tees off at Augusta National Golf Club this week, he will have overcome injuries and personal scandal. But commentator Frank Deford wonders whether a Masters win for Woods would be a comeback or his way of getting back at his detractors.

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The iconic Chicago photographer Art Shay took portraits of presidents, prizefighters, prose poets — and in the person of Roger Ebert, at least one Pulitzer-winning critic.

Roger Ebert: Elegance And Empathy

11:08am April 07, 2013

by Scott Simon

Roger Ebert wrote simply, abundantly, gorgeously — and on deadline for 46 years at the Chicago Sun-Times. Over the years, his work reminded us that empathy is the grace note of a good life, not just great art.

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