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Author's note: As many of my readers know, I was born and raised in western New York, and I have been a Buffalo Bills fan since their first game in 1960. I ...
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THE ROCKPILE REVIEW – At the One-Quarter Mark
It’s the end of September, and one quarter of the Bills’ 2025 campaign is in the books. It’s a good time to take stock. Let’s take a moment to think about the ...
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THE ROCKPILE REVIEW – I Never Leave Early
Author's note: As many readers of Hartford Today and Tomorrow know, I am a Buffalo Bills fan and season ticket holder. For many years, I have written a column about the Bills and particularly ...
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Steph Curry’s Anxiety Dream
The other night I happened to watch the documentary Stephen Curry: Underrated. In case the NBA or sports in general are not your thing, Steph Curry is a basketball star who plays ...
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We Love Our Football
The Hartford Courant recently published an op-ed piece by John Crisp on a subject near and dear to me: football (“Rethinking Our Undying Love of Football in the Wake of Hamlin’s Injury,” ...
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Buffalo Rises, Again
Buffalo. I was born in Buffalo and spent my childhood in Buffalo. Well, I spent my childhood in Eggertsville, just outside Buffalo, on the city line to the east and north. By ...
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Sacks and Jackson
My book group finished the 2021-22 season with one of the best books I’ve read: Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times, by Jonathan Sacks. Sacks calls on his broad range ...
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Racism in the NFL
Recently, I’ve had separate conversations with friends who have lamented the racism inherent in the NFL. I defended the NFL with my best guess as to the actual numbers, without doing any ...
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Author: Mark Korber
Mark Korber is a semi-retired curmudgeon who can’t quite stop practicing law. He is known to his friends to have an opinion on most anything and to express it, in detail, to anyone who shows the slightest interest. He writes about regionalism, Hartford, family and the Buffalo Bills.