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This was eating at Burger King following a nine-course bonanza at Per Se. The Nets were a 52-regular-season-win team with one superstar, point guard Jason Kidd, and a slew of mehs who would be sixth and seventh men in Jackson’s rotation.
Jeff Pearlman • Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
or their biography of Jackson Pollock that won the Pulitzer Prize.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
He knew his place, but he became a big part of the culture there, because he made sure things were fair and honest. He was a man of his word and expected the same of others.
James Andrew Miller • Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
Thomas Aquinas
Jeff Benedict • Tiger Woods
Thus, as the cable-tv-dominated status quo crumbles, pro sports will develop a new playbook, centered around better telling player stories. Players will also have more opportunity to tell and sell these stories themselves, direct-to-consumer:
Lea Boreland • Adapting sports
he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
Yet in an Annie Oakley–Frank Butler modus operandi, anything the Blazers could do, the Lakers could do better.