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Tra la! The wilderness years are over! Well, not quite, but I do have a new gig up at Examiner.com writing for their travel section. Could be worse! Check it out here!

While in New York City this past weekend for the Blogs With Balls conference, I had one of the best conversations about cricket I've ever had in my life. Granted, the discussions about cricket that I've had in my life are limited, but I think that's because I usually am trying to get someone to explain the game to me. After a few attempts, I've had to throw up my hands and admit that cricket will never be something that I actually understand. Chock it up to cricket being like baseball played on a 360 degree field and leave it at that. Oh, and it's also the only sport that has meal and sleeping breaks woven into the fabric of the game. Baseball has the seventh inning stretch. Cricket has lunch and tea breaks and a single game can last for days. The discussion in question specifically referred to the attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan on March 3 of this year. Sri Lanka agreed to fill in for the match after India refused to go in the wake of the atta...