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…
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…
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…
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