Jon Margolis

A few days before the World Cup soccer tournament opened, two young boys anticipated it by practicing their goal kicks against the pedestal of a statue in the Piazza Navonne,...

OK, so the platform was too wide. The big joke all around town these days, maybe all around Italy, is how the very first train on the new run between...

Florentine manners, circa 1500, were just going on display on the grass below when Adam Friend brought into Community Stadium American manners, circa 1990. The locals were dressed in those...

OK, it wasn`t as memorable as Francis Ouimet showing that a poor American kid could play the game better than rich English guys, as dramatic as the Nicklaus-Palmer faceoff of...

Here`s a good argument against those pessimists and cynics who think civilization has made no progress at all: After the first recorded major athletic event here, the winner got his...

Following in the prudent (or perhaps just cowardly) footsteps of the recording industry, this will begin with a warning label: The rest of this exercise relates to two common human...

As if he didn`t have enough troubles of his own, Sen. Dennis DeConcini now threatens to make some for baseball Comissioner Fay Vincent and his employers, the folks who own...

Did you know that football ''represents the deep-seated desire of every red-blooded American male to be a Superman, all-powerful and immortal'' and is also ''America`s No. 1 fake-masculinity ritual''? Probably...

Well, it`s Stanley Cup time again, a traumatic period for many sports fans. Hockey is all over the front pages of the sports sections, television and the radio call-in sports...

What`s amazing is not that there are bingo clubs, or even bingo cruises, but that there is a newspaper to chronicle (and advertise) their doings. No, actually there are 52...