WINTHROP, Wash. — For the first time in 32 years, organizers of the Rendezvous Cross Country Ski Festival in West Yellowstone, Montana, had to cancel November’s traditional start-of-the-ski-season event due to a lack of snow. “What COVID did was push people outside,” said Reese Brown, executive director of the Vermont-based Cross Country Ski Areas Association. “It brought a huge number …
Winthrop coach Pat Kelsey says he learned his philosophy of basketball while playing for the late Skip Prosser at Xavier in the 1990s. Winthrop and Colgate, which ranks second nationally in scoring, are two of the more exciting NCAA Tournament teams from one-bid leagues because they play fast. Although Colgate ranks fifth among all NCAA Tournament teams in adjusted tempo, …
In better times, Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign was full of flash: a launch rally that drew more than 20,000 people to Oakland, a five-day summer tour of Iowa on a luxury bus with her name blazing from the side in colorful capital letters, a robust multi-state operation headquartered in Baltimore. “The obvious risk is you’re not speaking to large crowds,” …
