April 17, 2023 There’s some backward thinking with this research I really don’t want to go around spreading crazy scientific claims so I will be up front with you. The information I am about…
April 9, 2023 Moor or Less: A rock-hard landing in Tucson “It could have been worse,” I said to my wife, Margaret, as I pulled her up off the side of a rocky trail in…
March 30, 2023 Moor or Less: Former Notre Dame player Frank Criniti was a giant in our community At 5-foot-8 and maybe 170 pounds at some point, Frank Criniti Jr. was the Little Big Man on the 1966 Notre Dame national championship…
March 22, 2023 Moor or Less: Of March Sadness, Hollywood hugs, kid crushes and money well spent Well, there is March Sadness for me. All of my Final Four picks have fallen — Purdue, Kansas, Arizona and, yes, my sentimental pick,…
March 13, 2023 Moor or Less: Mom calls a timeout in our weekly chat Jim Croce’s “Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels)” came on the car radio a few days ago. It’s hard to believe that song…
March 8, 2023 I’m hoping baseball is fun for me again My weekly Bill Moor email tells me the exact number of days until baseball’s opening day is getting smaller so I guess it is…
March 6, 2023 Moor or Less: The day my career went north I got the call that changed my life exactly 50 years today. Joe Doyle, the South Bend Tribune sports editor, called me while I…
February 27, 2023 Moor or Less: Is that a javelina I smell? A coyote trotted across the bike path just in front of me and didn’t give me a look as it headed into the nearby…
February 18, 2023 Moor or Less: Of Raquel, ’80 for Brady’ and bedroom TVs Like a lot of guys my age, I was sad to learn of the passing of Raquel Welch, a sex symbol of my youth…
February 13, 2023 Moor or Less: He watched five high school friends play in the Major Leagues With pitchers and catchers already reporting for spring training, I think it’s time for a baseball story. I didn’t have to look far. Our…
February 6, 2023 Moor or Less: Texas is big on roadside attractions Mother Nature must have missed the Texas Panhandle with her wand. Or so it seems. Scraggly and desolate come to mind as we pass…
January 28, 2023 Moor or Less: In this digital age, I like my map on paper I have my road atlas open on the kitchen table as I jump from page to page … state to state … map to…
January 25, 2023 Moor or Less: Oh, brother, more nicknames Below are some of the responses I received after my recent nicknames’ column. My pithy comments are in italics: _______ Nobody probably knows nicknames…
January 19, 2023 Moor or Less: I prefer Spanky over Moor-on When I went off to college, I had no real nicknames. I finally had outgrown my “Little Bill” designation around the family, although I…
January 6, 2023 Moor or Less: How about some recycled resolutions? When I was writing regularly for the South Bend Tribune, I always used to share my New Year’s resolutions in an early January column….
December 30, 2022 Moor or Less: A gift with Pur-Pur-Purdue on it I almost jumped back in shock when I opened the Christmas present that my daughter and her family gave me. It was a Purdue…
December 24, 2022 And from our readers …. My Christmas column last week stirred up some memories for a few of our readers. So I’ll let them have the (needle-covered) floor. Here…
December 20, 2022 Here is my story about ‘Close Encounters of the Urge Kind’ My wife would sleep like a rock if only a rock softly and sweetly snored. You get the point, though. Once she falls asleep,…
December 12, 2022 Moor or Less: Of Christmas lights, Chocolate Charlie and loaded cigars I like multi-colored strands of lights for our two trees — one small real one from Roseland Garden Center and our nine-foot artificial one…
December 4, 2022 Moor or Less: Count on it — I have a one-track mind I drew a few curious looks as I sat on the hood of my car in the Kroc Center’s parking lot and watched a…