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The Old Guys and the Young Guys

For the past three years, I’ve played pickup basketball in a 45-year-old campus rec, an ugly brown...

FIRST QUARTER (Tip-Off) by LEESA CROSS-SMITH We talk about sports a lot in my family. We talk...

Posted by Danny Caine | Oct 13, 2015 | Poetry

In a town like this they show the games on movie theater screens, where I watch a 20-foot tall...

If, like me, you watched TNT’s coverage of the 2015 NBA Playoffs, you’re familiar with the latest...

Posted by Ellen McGrath Smith | Mar 25, 2014 | Poetry

When I went from underhand to over from the foul line, no longer hoisting the ball like a sandbag,...