The Inside Line

I’m in Canada this week, just over the border from Minnesota on sprawling Lake of the Woods. Other than trips to St. Clair, which feels much more like Detroit than the Great White North, …

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How can they call it the “World Series” if only American teams are invited? That was more or less the conundrum that bass fishing suffered from for a long time. Even though like baseball, the spor …

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I’ve spent enough time in the boats of top pros to know that there are dozens of reasons I could never compete at the top level. Most of them do just about everything better than the weekend angl …

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I’ve never been a Princeton fan, but for decades I’ve been a fan of their longtime basketball coach Pete Carril, who died this week.  Those of you who think that basketball begins and end …

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We’re into the stretch runs of both major tours in season number four of the post-divorce bass world and things seem to have equalized. The Bass Pro Tour is in New York, and the Elite Series is e …

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Preface: I don’t know for a fact that anyone has ever cheated in a top-tier professional bass tournament. I mean, it’s obvious that someone, at some time, has broken the rules purposely, but as f …

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