As a teenager and young adult, I often wondered if my family had a way of communicating on a soul-level through sports that I didn’t understand. Granted, it wasn’t entirely my family’s fault. They tried. I hadn’t followed my grandmother’s advice to read the entire sports page in the paper every morning, especially Jim Murray’s column, and I didn’t take sports very seriously. I just didn’t seem to care the way that they did. I…

Business Jargon: "He really came in at 12:00 on that pitch meeting." "Craig, you let the bottom end fall towards you on this one." "Oh, he'll toss it if someone else carries it." "Jane has a 87% mindset and a 63% track record." Country Club Culture: Women, Jews, and people of color are permitted to play, but must first engage in a ceremonial foot-stomping from an actual ginger-from-birth Scotsman. The dress code mandates steel-toed boots…