In the world of professional basketball, emotions are never far from the surface. Every possession matters, every mistake is magnified, and every game carries the weight of expectations from fans,...
There is a fundamental rule in basketball that feels almost too obvious to state out loud: when you have a generational playmaker on your roster, you put the ball in...
Heading up the news this morning, rock and roll singer Rick Nelson was killed last night in a private plane crash in Texas. Officials say that his charter DC3 caught...
there and I’d been covering national politics for some time as well as doing what I was doing out there and I knew the Nixon crowd because most of them...
The year 2012, Helmond Province, Afghanistan. A British SAS squadron commander stood in the joint operations center, staring at a target folder that had been sitting on his desk for...
Hellman Province, Afghanistan, Forward Operating Base, Edinburgh. August 2008. Gunnery Sergeant Dale Harwick, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, is standing near the wire at 0340 hours when he sees them come...
In the mountains of Uruguan province, Afghanistan, coalition helicopter pilots passed around an informal rule that became something close to gospel. If you were flying at night and your route...
At first glance, everything about the Los Angeles Lakers looks promising. A roster filled with elite talent. A strong position in the Western Conference. And a season that, statistically speaking,...
It is July 1943. The mess hall at Camp Forest in Tennessee is loud with the sounds of several hundred men eating their evening meal. Metal trays, metal spoons, the...
The intake nurse at Camp Forest, Tennessee, writes down the height measurement twice because the first time she writes it, she does not believe the number. She calls the medic...