This all started with a rain out.
It was Patriots Day, 2003, maybe 2004. I was scheduled to cover a high school baseball game, but it poured. We needed something local to run in the sports section. Everything local had been washed away. I remember Ben Sturtevant, the editor on the desk that day, asked if I had anything. A column would be fine.
Well, I had this one sort of goofy idea…
Better traditions than sports haiku have been born of less.
I can’t recall the exact year I made sports haiku a spring tradition, like the return of mosquitoes, icy rain and mud, but here it is, the 2016 edition. The sports world — particularly the New England sports world — has given me plenty of topics to cover this year.
As usual, my apologies to all the talented poets around the world.
Pablo Sandoval
Belt-busting big boy
Worst free agent Red Sox signed?
Crawford says, looks like
David Ortiz
Do you have to leave?
October royalty, you
Three rings, go for four
Deflategate
This is still a thing?
Go away petty Goodell
Take a science class
Jordan Spieth
Shark relates and nods
Second nine spits out the best
New green jacket? Wait…
Kobe Bryant
Most hated rival?
Not quite, but on the short list
That shot, man, that shot
Claude Julien
Employed, still, despite
Season that crumbled away
Like that — poof! — was gone
Boston Celtics
Getting there, big green
Improvement will really come
With the Nets’ draft pick
John Farrell
Short leash, and so tight
Each loss a box being packed
Win now, or over
Patriots Schedule
Primetime desert night
Jones glares at his old teammates
Will Brady be there?
NFL Draft
North Dakota State?
QB from the cold prairie
LA beckons you
Villanova
Kill Tar Heel comeback
Kris Jenkins lives immortal
Jay Wright plays it cool
Stanley Cup Playoffs
What the! No Canada?
Great White North O for seven
Lord Stanley stays south
Kentucky Derby
Triple Crown drought snapped
A Grand Slam for the Pharoah
Sip a mint julep
Golden State Warriors
Well done, but know this
Bird, McHale and the Chief would
Blow you off the court
Travis Lazarczyk — 861-9242
tlazarczyk@centralmaine.com
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