As I looked to a relatively quiet weekend on the local sports front and pondered content for the Thanksgiving Monday column, I couldn’t help but to be struck by the very essence of this particular holiday — and specifically how it dovetails into the sentiment that is at the very core of the work that I do, pretty much seven days a week.
How can one not give thanks when each and every day gives rise to a wonderful landscape of incredible stories to be told, all within an environment that remains every bit as much of a passion for this writer as it was more than 20 years ago when I first made the plunge from a career in banking to Sudbury sports?
I give thanks pretty much daily for the entire spectrum of athletic involvement in this great city, the athletes, coaches, administrators and par