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Celebrate Your Victories, Even The Small Ones

by Kevin Burton Mitch Holthus is the radio voice of the Kansas City Chiefs. He’s really good at his job, in the overheated manner of the hometown play-by-play guy. There is a nearly-universal breathless presentation of sports that attempts to elevate it to something truly significant, when it really is not. Hey, …

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Yay, Comma, Football Is Back, Period

by Kevin Burton Remember the interjection song from Schoolhouse Rock? The song says interjections are “generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling’s not as strong.” Well I was feeling pretty sheepish about this, but I said the sentence “Yay! Football is back” …

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