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I've been reading The Last Boy on and off for the past few weeks, which is unusual for me as once I start a book I feel compelled to finish it. Got about 50 pages left. Appendix 1 is nine pages in length and lists all the people Jane Leavy interviewed. Amazing. Joyland was one of the books I...

I got a hole-in-one as a teenager playing on a course with sand greens. I couldn't find the ball anywhere near the green and finally my playing partner looked in the cup and there it was. The club sent it to the manufacturer and it was returned mounted on a tee. Many years later I was on a site...

In regard to software for book collections, I have used an Excel file for many years. I have columns for the title, author, publisher and date of publication, edition, condition of the book and dust jacket, genre, date of purchase, location, purchase price and running total of annual purchases...

The sports editor of our major daily wrote today that box scores will not run this season with the exception of the Toronto Blue Jays and admitted that he himself now read them on his iPad or computer either from the MLB site or team sites.

When two of us started writing a twice-weekly freelance sports people column in 1997, the paper gave us one to use. I'm almost positive that the full-time sports reporters had to share the ones they had in the office depending upon who was going out to cover a story and couldn't get back to the...

I just don't get it. Why would the Governor of South Carolina declare Monday Marcus Lattimore Day just because a college football player was injured?

I expected more personal Deford so was disappointed by Over Time. In addition to The World's Tallest Midget, The Best of Frank Deford published in 2000 collects his work in the 1990s including NPR Morning Edition commentaries.

Many years ago a daily in our city ran an engagement announcement about a former resident who had moved to the Cayman Islands for reasons unknown who was supposeldy marrying the daughter of the head of some African nation. His friend?? who gave the announcement to the paper got the photo of the...

Has anyone read/seen Frank Deford's Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter?

Has anyone read Jerry Sandusky's book titled Touched?

Last fall when my annual subscription came due in late October, I decided to see how long it would be before they stopped delivering the paper. I also was upset that they had cut publication from seven days a week to six. I think it took until about February when they finally were going to cut...

Chris recently wrote a piece on Grantland about hockey player suicides and depression.

I was at a funeral for a well-known local sports figure and businessman yesterday. Now that I think about it I didn't see one person with their phone out. And that was in the church and right outisde. Tweeting during a service or standing there right oustide texting or speaking on the phone...

You should have no problem getting a ticket for almost any show at the half-price ticket booths on the day of the show. I would suggest spending most of a day walking around the Piccadily Circus/Trafalgar/Leicester Square/Soho/Covent Gardens areas. Last summer when I was in London, I took the...

Heinz for sure, Deford, Joe Falls, Paul Hemphill, Jenkins, Roy MacGregor, Earl McRae, Plimpton, Gay Talese