Not baseball or football, but ‘mind sports’ help to get by

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Not baseball or football, but ‘mind sports’ help to get by

Fri, 04/10/2020 - 02:37
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An old proverb is coming true for me. At least from a sports perspective. With the coronavirus pandemic spreading, many doors in the athletic wing of the “Twilight Zone”-style funhouse that constitutes my life are closed and have ginormous signs on them reading, “Do Not Enter, Under Quarantine” – for now. Pickleball at the Richmond City Hall gym is on indefinite hiatus. A walking soccer group I am working to establish in Independence cannot stage a meet-and-greet, let alone play pickup sessions. And though Shirkey Golf Course in Richmond and the Excelsior Springs Golf Course are open, playing a round of golf seems off limits until the social distancing restrictions are eased so I can take more lessons with my local golf guru/former neighbor, Billy Cringan. But as the proverb states, “When one door closes, another opens.” Indeed, some sports-related doors have opened to me in what I classified as objective, non-athletic games in a 2019 column. Others call them “mind sports.” Mind…

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