Opinion & Analysis

It's Friday evening. What to do, what to do? Yard work or spend those hours out watching a high school spring sports game?

For those of you who enjoy gardening, weeding, and mowing more than a sports game, you can stop reading now.

For those of you who enjoy watching sports games while sitting on cool metal bleachers eating delicious junk food, you are in luck.

This could have been a tribute column:  one written in memory of Chief Jim Day.

I'm a big fan of the job the chief has done with Bedford's police department.  I also consider him to be a solid human and a personal friend.

But, even someone who is a ne'er-do-well doesn't deserve to get the treatment meted out to Day.  Just a couple of weeks ago, he was struck by a car as he rode his bicycle.

  Spring sports:  what a misnomer!

  "They're a bunch of old men," said the wife.