People of color generally take a rooting interest when other people of color reach a grand stage and strive for greatness. My heart was aflutter and my eyes dewy when Barack Obama gave us a Yes-We-Can moment, becoming the first black American to be elected President of the United States. Similarly, I’ve been captivated by …
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An Imperfect Witness to Baseball Perfection
My brother Mike is such a devout hacker, he literally lives on a golf course. So when I came back from covering the 1992 U.S. Open golf championship, at famed Pebble Beach, no less, he surmised that I probably didn’t realize how many people would have killed for an assignment that I’d otherwise considered with …
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Mad Men and the End of Linsanity
The signs all are there. The end of a news cycle. The end of a coaching tenure. The end of focused, team basketball in New York. The end, that is, of Linsanity. And, for many reasons, the end of watchable professional basketball. If you’d hoped this NBA fairy tale was going to end with Jeremy …
The Bad Fortune of Linsanity
I don’t even have to sample Ben & Jerry’s limited-edition, Jeremy Lin-inspired flavor to know that it is tasteless. After the furor the past week over race and ethnic profiling in over-the-top media coverage of the breakout star of the New York Knicks, for something like this to happen not only is inexcusable, it’s arrogant …
The Buzz: Glenn Nelson 