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Talking Sports: Round 2: Ready to again capture local sports moments

“Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first.”

In other words, I’ll be brief this go around. Also I’m afraid, whatever follows in this space – on this day or any other day – will never be near as brilliant as Lincoln’s second inaugural address. Fortunately, since I am only entering my second term as a sportswriter in Sidney and not as the head of a nation in crisis, it doesn’t need to be.

It can be reasonably surmised that one who opens a sports column with a quote from Linco...

 

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