by Free Sport | Jul 8, 2013 | Free Sport
Like so many outdoor recreations pursued in the northeast, if you wait for perfect surfing conditions, you’ll never get out there. Winter is cold. Summer is crowded. The water is never that warm. And the waves, regardless of the season, are rarely worthy of the...
by Free Sport | Jul 15, 2013 | Free Sport
In 1861, a young woman journeyed from Georgia to Massachusetts with the hope of freeing her imprisoned husband, a Confederate soldier, from his cell in Fort Warren, on Georges Island in the Boston Harbor. Cutting her hair and dressing like a man, she managed to sneak...
by Free Sport | Jul 23, 2013 | Free Sport
When I was 10 years old I stepped on a yellow jacket’s nest. I was in the woods with a friend. We had biked to school, as our semi-rural suburban Boston town allowed us to do upon reaching the fifth grade, and had decided to stop off in the woods on the way...
by Free Sport | Aug 2, 2013 | Free Sport
Long before the notion of the Tiger Mom entered our cultural parenting lexicon, there was the legend of a toddler-aged Tiger Woods. In 1978, the future perennial golf champion appeared on the Mike Douglas Show, a popular daytime talk show of the day. With the aid of...
by Free Sport | Aug 9, 2013 | Free Sport
How does the NFL respond to the horrific murder of Odin Lloyd allegedly committed by Aaron Hernandez, and any correlated concerns about football players and violence? By addressing the high level of domestic abuse committed by its players? Nope. By examining the...
