Crim: Day spent with multiple generations of loved ones trumps anything sports can provide

By Don Crim, Senior Columnist | October 9, 2023
Charles and Darlene Crim are pictured Sunday with their son, Don, two of their three grandchildren, Nathan Crim and Jessica Dedert, and six of their eight great-grandchildren. | Photo courtesy Don Crim

QUINCY — I had hoped to write a column about the University of Missouri posting a possible program defining victory over LSU to run its record to 6-0 heading into the second half of the college football season. That appeared possible for much of the game Saturday but, as it has been prone to do,…

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Crim: Embracing new adventure back where it all began

By Don Crim | January 3, 2022
Muddy River Sports columnist Don Crim, left, talks with Pittsfield's Paul Petty, center, and Layne Bennett while working on a story in the mid-1980s for the Quincy Herald-Whig.

We’re back to where it all began, in the toy department of life, writing about sports. The late, great New York City sportswriter Jimmy Cannon first coined that phrase many decades ago to describe the sports section in newspapers. Sports was then considered just a game, like a child playing with a toy, meant to…

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