A sportswriter’s appreciation of a Jordan-like ballerina quietly retiring at the top of her game.
Category: Sports
Puccio Puts the Future On Pause
SALT LAKE CITY--Whenever Alex Puccio glanced over a marvelously muscled shoulder to survey the competition last weekend in Salt Lake City, she spied not climbers like herself whose careers and bodies were sculpted from granite but the gym-rendered audacity and impatience of bouldering’s next generation. To claim her record-continuing 11th national bouldering title at the …
Super Conflicted
Two summers ago, I was on my feet at Safeco Field only because it was the only way to see. As Felix Hernandez was putting the finishing touches on a perfect game on Aug. 15, 2012, the woman next to me began to weep. Her boyfriend turned to me and said, in a concerned tone, …
The Buzz: Glenn Nelson 