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Mike DiMauro
Friday, July 26, 2024
Mike DiMauro
Friday, July 26, 2024
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COLUMNS BY MIKE DIMAURO
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for high school football, college football, pro football, football pregame shows, football postgame shows … you get the idea.
• Dr. Idle, Dr....
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Sometime, with many of us distracted, youth baseball got hijacked, its innocence eradicated, its rules rewritten to accommodate the individual, not the collective. And th...
In the spirit of how viewing carnage is sometimes tempting — think of craning your neck to see a roadside crash or browsing the Human Comments Section — I interrupted la...
Waterford — More hardened East Lyme loyalists might conclude that this behavior gives aid and comfort to the enemy. Or at least wonder why AJ Montejano, Alex Dreyfus and...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Sailfest, college football and for a national ban on hand dryers in public restrooms (who has the time to stand there?)
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I...
There is reasonable evidence that truth nowadays comes via popular vote. It’s common and accepted, or risks becoming fodder for all the Judgey McJudgersons out there who ...
If beautiful shoreline views and two world class casinos are our corner of the world’s primary attractions, then pizza joints and fitness centers are our primary example...
A more cynical fellow might wonder, given our legal system’s burgeoning fetish with “mitigating circumstances,” whether the six people arrested after protesting climate c...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for idiotic fireworks shows, college football and for the raising of banner No. 18:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, is ready to admit...
Another titan from our childhoods, another reminder of Father Time’s tenacity, left us earlier this week. William Howard Mays, the Say Hey Kid.
He was only a man, the pra...
Our ongoing education teaches us that the rich always get richer. It’s what they do. That’s how they got to be rich.
This is why it falls on governing bodies to adopt pol...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for an abrupt end to Road Construction Season, the Celts to wrap it up Monday and for schools, roads and at least one airport to be named aft...
New London — Of all the coffee shops in all the towns in all the world, M.L. Carr walks into Muddy Waters.
This was Tuesday morning, the former towel waving, entertaining...
There is that one quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw, that youth is wasted on the young, suggesting that young people, through a lack of experience and wisdom, don’...
Cue Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. Sound the church bells and blare the trumpets, good people of Connecticut. Your patron saint, St. Daniel of Hurley, is staying.
And frankl...
Mohegan — And to think we viewed it as Circus Maximus a few weeks back when Queen Caitlin of Clark made her WNBA debut here in our corner of the world.
The $900 courtside...
Mohegan — The din inside Neon Uncasville for much of Saturday afternoon suggested playoffs, not what amounted to the quarter pole of a 40-game regular season. Oh, the sel...
Groton — The concept of “Everyman” is an old fictional archetype, whose general interpretation represents the common, humble character with whom the readers easily identi...
Old Lyme — Nobody else is doing this. Nobody else is close. Not even the Gold Coasters, the Dariens, the New Canaans, whose high school athletic programs seemingly win ev...
We’ve been awash in tributes for a few days now to honor the passing of Bill Walton, the ever entertaining hoopster/Deadhead/commentator/narrator of everyday existence. H...
Lebanon — The fertilizer spread hither and yon hits you like Joe Frazier somewhere driving up Route 87, during which you also encounter the Blue Iris Farm and Prides Corn...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the College World Series, the future champion Celts and Rangers and for the official list of 25 Women’s Basketball Players Better Than Ca...
All that’s left to punctuate the Fonfara Follies is to cue Handel’s Hallelujah chorus, or perhaps summon the bagpiper to deliver the haunting strains of Amazing Grace, pr...
Groton — It is a few days removed now from an altercation between two men at Poquonnock Plains Park, the residual effect of which included one of the men waving a gun. Wh...
Mohegan — And so the chaos of Circus Maximus comes Tuesday to Neon Uncasville, the Connecticut Sun’s season opener a mere postscript to Queen Caitlin of Clark, whose fir...
North Stonington — The boys of winter watched amusingly earlier this week, their old coach who donned the snazzy suits for basketball in more casual duds for softball: ma...
Waterford — In the pantheon of geniuses, there’s Albert Einstein, Bill Belichick and perhaps the person who invented remote control. But could even those estimable savant...
New London — There are many inhabitants of the 06320 who proclaim devotion to their city — talking it more than walking it — often sounding like editorials that have forg...
East Lyme — Three of his teammates were there last week, signing their names, absorbing the cool vibes of college “signing day” at East Lyme High. Drew Sager — make that ...
There is a growing narrative suggesting baseball is losing young people, whose shorter attention spans and forays with instant gratification don’t blend well with a game ...
East Lyme — The memory remains vivid, especially to the dad, because, well, dads get this way a lot. Sure, life’s rhythms naturally create memories for dads and sons, but...
Questions to ponder:
How many social media platforms are you familiar with?
Do you understand which platforms your kids use regularly? What they’re posting? To whom?
If t...
Stonington — There are no words. Even now, more than a year later. Kevin Hesch was supposed to grow old with Heather and the five kids, all the Thanksgivings, Christmases...
Waterford — It was one of those crystalline, sun-soaked days with which April, and her hints of hope and renewal, treats us occasionally. A day just perfect for celebrati...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for artificial turf at Bacon Academy, the MVP for Juan Soto and for the Celtics to go two straight possessions without jacking up a 3:
• Dr. ...
News item: Tickets for the Connecticut Sun’s season opener against the fighting Caitlin Clarks of Indiana (May 14 at Mohegan Sun Arena) range from $126-$586 apiece on the...
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