Adam Waxman

1 week ago | dinemagazine.ca | Adam Waxman

Tassels dangle from a tightly woven dream catcher that gently sways in the breeze. “Do you know what a dream catcher is?” I ask my son. “Do you know where it comes from?” He gazes, wide-eyed, at the teardrop-shaped willow hoop; its web, gleaming as the sun sets through his bedroom window. I begin telling him stories of the Ojibwe nation, and the Anishinabek people that encompassed the Great Lakes.

1 week ago | dinemagazine.ca | Adam Waxman

Time was, local communities would pick up a stick and a ball, and play a primitive form of what would one day become the world’s most popular game. Baseball. But, contrary to popular belief, that historic 1839 game in Cooperstown, New York, wasn’t all that historic. It was preceded by an earlier recorded game. The year was 1838. The town was Beachville, Ontario. Two local teams from Zorra and North Oxford faced each other. It was June 4th. Militia Day. The baseball diamond was actually a square.

1 week ago | phiredupsports.com | Adam Waxman

In a contest that pitted two of the top-six squads in MLS, the Philadelphia Union played host to Lionel Messi and Inter Miami on Saturday evening at Subaru Park, looking for three crucial points to extend its Eastern Conference lead. Miami and the Union exchanged goals back and forth, ultimately drawing 3-3. Philadelphia started the match on the right foot, receiving back-to-back corner kicks. Ultimately, Miami goalkeeper Oscar Ustari turned both aside. They always say the third time’s the charm.

1 month ago | dinemagazine.ca | Adam Waxman

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David ThoreauCanada is a wild country. I want to detach from the matrix and reconnect to something real, so I head north. And yet, whenever I’ve said, “I’m going up north for the weekend,” I’ve still been very much in the south. Ontario’s true north is a Texas-sized wilderness.

1 month ago | psucollegian.com | Adam Waxman

While it may have been a cool spring Saturday afternoon at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, the bats were anything but. Penn State and Maryland traded punches for more than four hours in a high-octane seesaw battle that ultimately ended in heartbreak for the Nittany Lions, who fell 12-11 in 11 innings. Despite racking up 17 hits and nine RBI, a solo home run from Maryland’s Brayden Martin in the top of the 11th proved to be the difference.