Greg Bishop

Racing the Clock and a Storm

nytimes.com — MOORE, Okla. - A half-hour - maybe. Early Monday afternoon at the Shear Perfection hair salon, a stylist named Lisa Lentz decided to outrace it. Her one o'clock, a cut-and-color, was done, but two other clients had just canceled, and the ominous tone of Gary England, the meteorological oracle on News 9, commanded attention.

Quote: Gene Weingarten on How To Make It In Non-Fiction Writing

brandonsneed.com — This was helpful to me today. From Gene Weingarten's book The Fiddler in the Subway : "We are in bewildering times for young people who want to make non-fiction writing their careers. Journalism jobs are scarce, and getting scarcer. I deliver the only solace I can, by telling them what I believe: The art of storytelling is as old as civilization.

Houston Astros Vendor Caught on the Toilet with Snow Cones Next to Him, Has Been Fired [Video]

thebiglead.com — This is probably not the type of press the 14-33 Houston Astros are looking to draw. Earlier this week, a fan at Minute Maid Park filmed video with a vendor in a men's bathroom stall. The vendor had a tray of snow cones on the floor next to him.

N.B.A. Playoffs - Pacers’ Paul George Goes From Anthony to James - NYTimes.com

nytimes.com — For six games over the last two weeks, Paul George of the Indiana Pacers had one of the tougher assignments in the N.B.A. playoffs. His job was to guard the Knicks' Carmelo Anthony one on one, to keep the offensive damage that Anthony can inflict to a minimum, to do whatever he had to do, within the rules, to wear down one of the league's top scorers.

A Cornell Lacrosse Star Who Returned for a Ring

nytimes.com — So many options. Take the finance job in New York City. Star for the hometown team in Major League Lacrosse. Transfer to another university, one outside the Ivy League, to circumvent all its rules and regulations and red tape. Rob Pannell considered all of that for about two seconds last spring and narrowed his list of choices back to one.

Tyson, Holyfield and the Night That Changed Boxing Forever: George Willis: 9781600787904: Amazon.com: Books

amazon.com — George Willis is an award-winning sports columnist for the New York Post and a former journalist with the New York Times, Newsday, and the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. His writing has also appeared on ESPN.com and in ESPN magazine.

Beth Israel Deaconess trauma nurses treated bombing suspect like any other patient

bostonglobe.com — The 29-year-old trauma nurse was on-call at home, unwinding in front of a "Friends'' television marathon on a Friday night. She had been ministering to patients horribly injured in the Boston Marathon bombings and craved a distraction. But she couldn't resist flipping to the news, and as she did, police surrounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, cowering and bloody inside a parked pleasure boat.

Injured Louisville guard Kevin Ware receives huge support that comes in all shapes and sizes

sports.yahoo.com — There was a letter from Sean, an inmate in a supermax prison in Florence, Colo. Sean is serving a 39-year sentence for fire-bombing a synagogue in 2001, but wrote that he has renounced his racist skinhead past. He saw Kevin Ware's leg snap on television, and he wanted to offer words of encouragement.

Mariners’ Felix Hernandez, the Star Who Stayed

nytimes.com — SEATTLE - On the day the Mariners made Felix Hernandez the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history, about 100 team employees waited for him outside an elevator, clad in gold T-shirts that read simply "King." They held "K" signs as they clapped and screamed and chanted his name.

A Jay-Z Sighting ... in 1939 Harlem

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com — Sid Grossman, courtesy New York Public Library Yes, the New York Public Library swears, the old photo of the guy who looks scarily like Jay-Z really is an unretouched, un-Photoshopped image from 1939. "We're 100 percent certain it's legitimate," Adenike Olanrewaju, a library spokeswoman, said on Friday.