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    SKIP NOVAK

    Feb 11, 2021 3 minutes

    I am a lousy sports fan. If I can’t actually do it, I’m ambivalent. However, I do tune in to the FIFA World Cup and Rugby World Cup finals and, as a Yank, the Super Bowl, for no other reason than to arm myself for the Monday morning conversations downstream. Best not to be totally ignorant of any important world event, whether it be famine, war, an election or sport.

    Same goes for yacht racing. The amount of sailing news on various

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