In April 1983, I was sitting in the kitchen of my townhouse in Gastonia, N.C., drinking vodka with legendary baseball writer Roger Kahn. He was doing most of the drinking and I was interviewing him. I remembering asking him about sports columnist Dick Young, the man who essentially drove Tom Seaver out of New York. …
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“If you don’t know me by now, you will never never ever know me …” Some movies wind up deep in your heart, even if you don’t realize it the first time you see them. “Class Action came out in March 1991, and I honestly don’t remember if I saw it in a movie theater …
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Maybe I’m being overly optimistic here, but I have a feeling that Donald Trump’s quest to come up with half a billion dollars to appeal his conviction in New York is full of pitfalls. Trump was never as rich as he said he was. In fact, maybe the most honest thing he ever said about …
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From 15 years ago on Facebook. I was still in California and Trump was just a useless New York wanker. Taken from “Inside the Actors’ Studio”, this is the 10-question quiz that closes every interview on the show. Anyone who has watched the show finds him or herself answering these questions anyway, so here’s my …
I have written before about how I ceased being a sports fan when I became a sportswriter. I think I’ve even mentioned how the one team in one sport that I never stopped caring about was University of Virginia basketball. I have lived and died with them — mostly died — since the mid 1960s. …
Fifteen years ago, back in my early days on Facebook, I used to do lists like this all the time. Some I wrote and asked others to try, some were written by others asking me to try. When I first saw this one today in the Memories section of Facebook and saw that it was …
“The really dangerous American fascist… is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. “His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never …
In 2015, before he came down the golden escalator and offered himself as a savior, Donald Trump invited evangelicals to meet with him in his office. Most of them were second-generation types like Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. Trump told them he had had a conversion experience and was dedicating his life to Jesus. …
I was in downtown Atlanta today and saw a billboard that threw me for a loop. I was sitting at a traffic light and an advertisement for a channel called Peachtree TV was bragging that on Friday night there would be an Atlanta Hawks basketball game on FREE TV. Imagine that. You can watch an …
At least once or twice a week, I see a clickbait article on Facebook trying to tell me all the things that are disappearing from our lives because millennials no longer buy or use them. There’s a certain “OK Boomer” quality to these articles, implying somehow that millennials have achieved a higher level of consciousness, …
