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Essentially better, wouldn’t you say?
Fans back in the stands and games back in play.
Clearly more settled but far from routine:
Some shots from the arc, some for the vaccine.
A year on the rebound crisscrossing sports.
A year next to normal, progress of sorts.
First Quarter
The New Year strikes, ignite the flame.
Bama, Buckeyes reach title game.
Browns and playoffs: Now there’s a match.
DeVonta Smith, a Heisman catch.
Capitol Hill, a violent sea.
The Heat and Celtics take a knee.
New New York star, good as it gets --
Lindor leaves Cleveland, dealt to Mets.
A limb falls from the Dodger tree --
Tom Lasorda was 93.
Tide surges in a dull affair
To send Nick Saban past the Bear.
Nets nab Harden, aiming higher.
Jags try likewise, Urban Meyer.
Australian tennis, quarantine.
Olympics nearing, what’s it mean?
A star grows dim in baseball’s sky
As Henry Aaron passes by.
A shutout vote for baseball’s Hall,
Though Schilling nearly gets a call.
Bucs, Brady ride on cruise control
And stay at home for Super Bowl.
Chiefs dethroned, Tampa Bay is king
And Brady gets his seventh ring.
Lombardi Trophy tossed from boat --
Pass completed by football’s GOAT.
Prep for Tokyo goes off the track,
With leaders talking sexist smack.
McDowell exults, Daytona bash —
Grabs first win, eludes last-lap crash.
Djokovic’s season underway,
Ninth Aussie crown on resume.
A morning drive, a roll, a tree --
Woods wrecks his speeding SUV.
Shattered leg, orthopedic mess.
Any more golf? Anyone’s guess.
Kyle Larson, banned for racist crack,
Returns and wins, Las Vegas track.
Conference tournaments, disarray.
Coronavirus comes to play.
A boxing marvel pound for pound,
Marvin Hagler goes one last round.
Drew Brees retires, time to go.
Roy Williams follows, ends the show.
March Madness not the same event,
The games now played in one big tent.
But NCAA proves all thumbs --
Men get red carpet. Women? Crumbs.
Elgin Baylor, whose game took flight,
Now passes into that good night.
NFL adds one game to sked.
Smell of money goes to its head.
Second Quarter
Opening day but no at-bats
When COVID scraps the Mets at Nats.