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About 15 percent of injuries to 9 to 16-year-old hockey players are concussions -- a direct result of body checking.
Timewasters:  The landings
Of no particular value other than it's awesomeness is this video posted today showing every landing in San Diego over a four-and-a-half-hour span on Black Friday.
Why  they knit
Maybe there'd be less violence in the news if more people knit.
The lost story in Kansas City
How much do we elevate the importance of professional football players? A tragedy in Kansas City today provides an answer.
The unanswerable questions in Cold Spring
I want to make things all better for four kids in Cold Spring today and, of course, I can't. I don't know what to do and I recoil at the notion that there's nothing any of us can do but cry out and move on.