Profile: The Frontier At 40 Sweet Rolls, Good Memories In four decades, no one has died at 2400 Central SE. This according to majordoughmo Larry Rainosek, who has greeted gut-growling crowds there [...] Toby Smith \ Nov 24, 2011 Read More
Sports: The Kickball Chronicles Who’s On First? I Don’t Know, But I Want To Meet Her. Adults seldom get the chance to relive their elementary school days. Who’d want to?Cafeteria lunches that tasted like dinosaur vomit. Bodily worries, arithmetic [...] Toby Smith \ Nov 03, 2011 Read More
Tennis, Everyone? Like soccer, tennis is a global game. This wasn’t always so. Fifty years ago, the U.S. and Australia dominated the sport, in men’s [...] Toby Smith \ Sep 29, 2011 Read More Regina Kulikova
An Uphill Battle: The Winners And Losers Of Women’s Tennis Confront The Climb Winners And Losers Confront The Climb As hills go, it’s a short one, 60 yards in length at most. But when you lose a tennis match at Tanoan Country [...] Toby Smith \ Sep 22, 2011 Read More
9.11.2011: Stranger In A Strange Land I was winding down from a day’s work as editor of an English-language, daily newspaper in South Korea. It was about 10 p.m., [...] Toby Smith \ Sep 08, 2011 Read More
Indoor Surfing? Knot Those Shorts Tight. Indoor Surfing? Yeah, Dude, It’s A Trip. Just Remember To Knot Those Shorts Tight. The water is only waist-deep, but already I’m in over my head.“Desperate” describes my first effort to stay afloat in the FlowRider, a [...] Toby Smith \ Aug 18, 2011 Read More
Love In The Pro Wrestling Ring How A Nursing Student Found Happiness With A 300-Pound Pro Wrestler When someone bashes Mosh Pit Mike in the face with a folding chair, his girlfriend grows worried. When someone else clunks a speed-limit [...] Toby Smith \ Jul 28, 2011 Read More
Baseball: Making Claim To A Foul Ball Is Seldom Easy Making Claim To A Foul Ball Is Seldom Easy “Put these on,” Art Duran instructs as he hands me a package of disposable gloves.Bare skin is not allowed near the aged, yellowing [...] Toby Smith \ Jul 14, 2011 Read More
Range War: A Day In The Life Of A Picker A Golf Course Is A Peaceful Place—Unless You’re A Picker In front of me is a heavy-duty, quarter-inch-thick plastic windshield. To my left and right are screen doors made of tough steel mesh. [...] Toby Smith \ Jun 30, 2011 Read More Jim Dunn at work at UNM's Championship Golf Course (Toby Smith)
A Phone Call From Djokovich’s Superfan After Serbia’s Novak Djokovich played Roger Federer on Friday in the semifinals of the men’s singles at the French Open, I wondered how [...] Toby Smith \ Jun 09, 2011 Read More Federer crying in 2009