Message, belief, execution
The Indiana football Hoosiers have the opportunity to finish the regular season 12-0. It's never happened before and only Purdue stands in the way. Happy…
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Book review: Moneyball
SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN (June, 2003) Moneyball by Michael Lewis Here's the dilemma: You are a Major League Baseball team's general manager, and you have…
Mendoza’s finest hour
Indiana football is on course to play for the Big Ten Championship and earn a spot in its second straight College Football Playoff. The Hoosiers…
50 years of journals
Chronicling the monumental, and mostly the trivial, since '75 I rarely go anywhere without a notebook. The journal originates for me November 7, 1975. Day…
50 years of hoops
The gift that keeps on giving, bounces It started with a basketball for Christmas when I was nine. I can still picture walking out to…
Fun with triple-barrel names
During the mid-1990s, my friend Paul Johnson encouraged me to start selling my writing. "Pableaux" had that rare ability to bring out the best in…
Indiana football’s new era
The Hoosiers are for real, but going 1-0 this week is all that matters I’ve been an Indiana football fan my whole life, enduring decades…
Reviewing Chaos
Book review (plus) Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill; Chaos, Netflix documentary by Errol Morris. In the late 1990s,…
1000 years of spin
The millennium's greatest PR moments (1999) 1000 YEARS OF SPIN The Millennium's Greatest PR Moments Year 1000 — World fails to end. Advisors to Norwegian King…
The briefing
A breakthrough item of mine is The Briefing, a press conference satire I created after viewing network coverage of James Kallstrom, then-FBI director, updating media…
