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…
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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
Helping chronicle the monumental and the trivial, the journal has been a terrific tool not only for recording my life, but also for preserving mood…
Talking to myself
I've always loved November because of the way it compresses things. It’s a short month. The clocks change, the days get darker. College basketball returns.…
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…
Emotionless clones invade
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a classic in every version Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Director: Don Siegelwith Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Carolyn…
Gene Johnson — True inventor of basketball’s fullcourt press
Gene Johnson of Wichita University invented the full-court press in the 1930s. This fact should be a slam dunk. I used ChatGPT to correct an…
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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…
Texas 10/1/95
What began as a “five year mission” just hit 30 Right about now, 30 years ago to the minute, Christi, two cats and I exited…
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