‘Dummy points’ a valuable asset
We now explore an interesting hand that is a little short on high card points (HCP's), but holds a valuable asset called “dummy points,” which is shortness in a side-suit. Dummy should value a side-suit doubleton at one extra point, a singleton at three extra points and a void at five extra points. The reason shortness in a side-suit is important is that dummy is able to convert some of declarer's losing tricks into winners by trumping them in dummy - a pretty good feature to have.
There’s a simple $10 billion solution to school shooting tragedies
As I finish this column on the Monday after the Connecticut school shooting tragedy, I just dropped my daughter off at her school with more nervousness and trepidation than ever before. Like most people, I am filled with the sadness and sickness that comes with this horror. And, like most parents, I am terrified by a thought too horrible to completely manifest, but one that we have all had in the last few days.
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MINNEAPOLIS – In the spring of 1995, I made one of the biggest mistakes of my career. I took a bunch of frauds seriously.
Change a constant for the news business – except it’s still all about Gilroy
More than a decade ago, as the dawn of the information age turned into mid-morning, our industry hemmed and hawed: Should we charge customers to read the news online? Pros and cons were tossed about like sports cliches in post-game interviews. And, as an industry, we took it “one game at a time” which turned into “one year at a time” which, in my view, turned into a decade of madness.
Garcia keeps paying and playing it forward
Gilroy just got one more reason to cheer for hometown hero Jeff














