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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Race and Ichiro’s Muddled Mariner Legacy
If I were slightly more paranoid and were a bit more inclined to carry the race card more easily positioned to play, I’d swear that, when Jay Buhner told Seattle radio station ESPN 710 that he would “vomit” if his former team, the Mariners, re-signed his former teammate, Ichiro, to a fat, multiyear contract extension, …
It’s All Relative
I am going to describe my journey – from writer to editor to photographer to audio producer to videographer to, hopefully, multimedia arts journalist. My underlying expertise, I can say with some certainty, is sports – more specifically, basketball. Along the way, I’ll touch on that as well. Mostly I’m going to describe how I’m doing things, in hopes that someone smarter and better can leave a comment on how I could have done something smarter or better, or someone less experienced can learn either how to do or how not to do something.
The Buzz: Glenn Nelson 