There is a very specific moment in the life cycle of every major sports controversy where the truth simply becomes too heavy to hide. For weeks, the basketball establishment has...
Dean Martin walked into Graceand on August 19th, 1977. It was 3:47 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, 3 days after Elvis died, one day after Elvis’s funeral. The house was...
Thank you very much for this honor you have awarded me tonight. I’ve always believed that the real measure of celebrity success was not just >> June 25th, 2009. The...
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...