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Articles by Mark Winegardner
Turning Points: The Final Minutes Of Game 7
From blocks and shots to fouls and free throws, these legendary moments went down exactly the way we needed them to. It was just too perfect. In my PTSD-stricken lifetime as a Cleveland fan and — unless you’ve been eligible for AARP longer than I have, yours, too — that’s never been a good thing. Twelve seconds to go in the NBA Finals. Game 7. Hostile court. Cleveland clings to a 92-89 lead.
MLB - New York Mets must pay Bobby Bonilla millions for years to come - ESPN The Magazine
Fred Wilpon's (left) business relationship with Bernie Madoff led the Mets into a mess. Getty ImagesLAST JULY, in her New York office, a financial planner by the exquisitely apt name of Jennifer Prosperino received her weekly call from a longtime client. He was a semiretired man in Florida who'd grown up evading gunfire in the South Bronx, where he'd lived in firetrap apartment buildings with junkies in the hallways. He slept with a baseball bat in his bed, dreaming of a better life.
We Relive The Legendary Final Minutes Of Game 7
It was just too perfect. In my PTSD-stricken lifetime as a Cleveland fan and — unless you’ve been eligible for AARP longer than I have, yours, too — that’s never been a good thing. Twelve seconds to go in the NBA Finals. Game 7. Hostile court. Cleveland clings to a 92-89 lead.
Hey, Cleveland! Take a moment to savor your 'Hell of a Season'
CLEVELAND --Look, I'm a fan but not a drooling idiot.
How Professional Athletes Stretch the Rules to Win
As the son of bootleggers in depression-era North Carolina, Junior Johnson learned all the tricks to building a humdrum-looking car with the muscle to outrun any police cruiser. He took that knack for subterfuge to the region’s dirt tracks, where every grizzled gearhead lived by the same credo: If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’. Johnson adopted a different view.
The legend of Dan Kendra
Twenty years ago, every wise man in college football cast his regal gaze upon a star rising over in the little town of Bethlehem (Pa.). For it had come to pass that, nestled in this holy land of quarterbacks—Unitas and Namath, Montana and Marino—there was a humble, free-spirited, golden-haired boy, born in the year of his country’s bicentennial, whose daring feats of wonder seemed like nothing of this cold and wretched earth. The boy’s name was Dan Kendra. And he was the stuff of legend.
The Best Baseball Novels
Why do you think baseball forms the basis for so many great American novels? In a sense, it is because baseball symbolises something that was at one point an idealised version of American life. Today I think it is an idealised version of a fantasy American life – which is pastoral, honest, competitive and entertaining. But most importantly, baseball recreates the quotidian nature of existence. It is an everyday game.
The Godfather
50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Mario Puzo's classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon - nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness.
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