Hometown Home Local Heroes Cheering for the Blue Knights By Bill Fields The strong right arm of Sonny Jurgensen turned me into a Washington Redskins fan before I was old enough for Midget League, but my first favorite football team played much closer to home. Prior to seeing Sonny sling Sunday afternoon spirals on our […]

HOMETOWN Home Back to School Daze Ticonderoga and a crew cut, too By Bill Fields Summer moved slowly, like a bunted ball unsure if it was fair or foul, but once the dog days had come and gone, the pace quickened. Little League was over. The beach was a pile of Polaroids, a stray Skee-Ball […]

The ‘Playoffs’ were flawed from the start

Scheffler's latest win a streaky-good example of his talent

HOMETOWN Home A Fish Tale And a queasy oceangoing interview By Bill Fields It’s prime bluefish season in my adopted home state of Connecticut, where anglers pursue the aggressive and toothy species in Long Island Sound. Our now-defunct local minor league team, the Bridgeport Bluefish, had a fitting name. Its logo — cartoon fish with […]

Record-tying 62 and an epic 72nd hole mark Kiwi's comeback

HOMETOWN Home Over There A wee bit of wonderful By Bill Fields Like many Americans, I first experienced the British Open — what most in the United States called that golf major championship during the 1970s — through television. ABC Sports broadcasts weren’t long by today’s dawn-to-dusk standards but were revealing: the rumpled landscape, khaki-colored […]

HOMETOWN Home Movin’ on Up Taking on the big city By Bill Fields By Bill Fields I met a friend for breakfast one Sunday morning this spring at a Connecticut diner. With its bustling vibe, vinyl-covered booths, menu the size of a novella and servers with a sixth sense for a coffee cup in need […]

Rai excels when others struggle, resulting in a major breakthrough at the PGA

He will have to handle major presssure and a very bunched leaderboard

Scheffler among seven sharing lead after first round of 108th PGA

A roundup ahead of the year's second men's major

Snedeker's game takes off after nearly eight-year drought

After closing strong to win The Players, he has a major opportunity at Augusta

McIlroy went on a roll to take command of the 90th Masters

Shane Lowry's difficult finish costs him at the Cognizant

HOMETOWN Home Wearin’ o’ the Green A little luck goes a long way By Bill Fields I’m going to wear something green on St. Patrick’s Day. I’ve never been fully committed to doing so, but upon reviewing my ethnic origins for the first time in a while, I’ve decided that this March 17 I ought […]

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The Players: special but not a major

Byron Nelson's play 80 years ago remains a beacon of excellence