Sam Morris

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Getting down, for tradition: Saturday, April 26, 2008; “It’s a tradition. We’re supporting the team and adding enthusiasm.”
Look, watch, learn — batter up!: Friday, March 28, 2008; “You can observe a lot by just watching,” Yankees legend — and master of the malaprop — Yogi Berra once said. And what holds true in the majors is equally true at other levels of the game.
Baseball on the brain: Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008; Sorry, Tennyson, but in the United States, a young man's thoughts turn to baseball in spring.
They hear no evil, but hustle to spot it: Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008; Scream all you want, sports fans, but you’re not going to get to the officials. At least not Emma Major-Hassinger.
They warmed to soccer, soccer players: Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008; A playoff should be enough reason for someone to attend a sporting event.
But in high school, there may be something else that helps get a guy to stand around for a couple hours in near-freezing weather.
Pint-sized ambassador: Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008; Flitting among the stacks of gastronomic fare usually found in concession stands, Ashley offers, “We have pizza, nachos, hot dogs, candy and chips. Lots of people like nachos, but I like ice cream the best.”
SIGHT UNSEEN: Our favorite photos that didn't run this year: Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007; These photographic orphans are some that I have taken on other assignments but were never meant to be published. Sometimes an image presents itself and I shoot it. I look at the preview on the back of the camera and maybe pull it up full-size on my laptop later.
For Love of the Game: Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007; In flip-flops instead of cleats, with a jersey instead of shoulder pads hanging off his shoulders, Moapa Valley junior Ben Paul does all he can do from a wheelchair as his team pulls away from Virgin Valley in the 3A championship game.
Tropicana at 50: Sunday, April 1, 2007; To escape Cuba in 1961 after spending months in a concentration camp, Jose Dominguez signed over his plantation and all his belongings to Fidel Castro's Communist government.
FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME: Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007; A basketball makes an unmistakable sound when bounced on asphalt. It's a high-pitched, echoing "ting." And on a weekday night at VoTech High School, that sound is followed by one akin to a muffled gong as a basketball fails to hit its mark and caroms off the metal backboard. First the "ting," then the "gong." And again, and again.