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He was replaced by Salley, the 36-year-old deep reserve trying to become the first man to win titles with three different franchises.
Jeff Pearlman • Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
By far the best account of Benny Leonard, both of his mystique and of his fighting style, I discovered, is by Budd Schulberg in one of his collections of boxing pieces. Schulberg, to my mind, may be the most underrated of all American authors, the author of the best firsthand account of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel The Disenchanted, and the in
... See moreAdam Gopnik • The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
Alexandra Schwartz • Miranda July Turns the Lights On
ward of the Humber River Regional Hospital. As Mystery’s mother opened the door for him, a four-set of girls poured out of an SUV parked in front of them. For a moment, a spark of life flickered in Mystery’s eyes. I watched him, hoping to hear him say those six magical words: “Is this your set or mine?” Then I’d know everything would be okay. But h
... See moreNeil Strauss • The Game
She read a story that Shake wrote about his pops—he’d gone into L.A. Men’s for selling dope, but then unfortunately killed someone inside during a fight over the TV and ended up at Pelican Bay where he remained, twelve years later, making yoga mats. Laura said that Shake had a “real voice.”