Tom Sorensen

I’m back, but you always knew I would be

Tom Sorensen’s back, with an Observer newsletter that offers his unique take on sports, direct to your inbox, every Wednesday.
Tom Sorensen’s back, with an Observer newsletter that offers his unique take on sports, direct to your inbox, every Wednesday. mhames@charlotteobserver.com

Come on. You knew I’d come crawling back.

I like my job too much to stay away indefinitely. I’ll write one newsletter a week, and this is the first.

I left last December because I had burned out. Retirement initially was terrible. I still appeared on the John Boy & Billy show on Friday mornings. But except for that, I usually sat home and waited for life to come to me. Life doesn’t work that way. So I became more active, which is to say alive.

I wrote two columns for the Observer. One was about Muhammad Ali, an idol when I was young and a man I respected enormously throughout my life. The other was about Jerry Richardson’s 80th birthday. I respect him, too.

Not everything I write in this newsletter will be about people I respect. Promise.

This story was originally published September 14, 2016 at 11:08 AM with the headline "I’m back, but you always knew I would be."

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