The Inside Line

Every sport has limitations on technology or products that might give an unfair advantage – ranging from a ban on aluminum bats to penalties for using performance-enhancing drugs or even limitati …

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For reasons that should be obvious to anyone who’s ever experienced shrinkage in any form, it’s probably not a good idea to hold bass tournaments on Champlain, St. Clair or Bay de Noc in January …

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I was beginning to think that the fishing world was in freefall. We had two semi-major professional events recently – a Bassmaster Open on Oklahoma’s Lake Eufaula and a Tackle Warehouse Invitatio …

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For a remarkably lengthy period of time, no one held a candle to Kevin VanDam on the water. You could have him fishing a puddle of parking lot antifreeze, and put someone else on the best lake in …

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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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