Opinion

They came to play. Well, what else would they have come for, to show off their needlepoint collection? To exchange recipes?

My addiction to professional sports is limited to watching the Boston Celtics in basketball, the Oakland Raiders in football and whoever is playing in the world series.
During the time I’ve fed this addiction, I’ve acquired quite an arsenal of sports clichés, metaphors that describe things that are not. But first, a mini-English lesson:

Loveland (Colo.) Reporter-Herald on that state’s water law (June 18) — Colorado water law is well known for being idiosyncratic. Who can use what water, and when, confounds even the most experienced attorneys, sometimes.