I haven’t read much so far this year except for work. I’ve been hip-deep in a project that (knocks knuckles on head) you’ll be seeing in the next week or […]
Late Sunday night, I wrote a piece for Forbes about Marcus Smart, the Oklahoma State basketball player who shoved a fan in the stands. Just as I filed that piece, […]
Last weekend I spoke at an event called Dazzle Gradually, sponsored by the very cool people with the Friday Arts Project in Rock Hill. There were poets, musicians, visual artists, […]
Yeah, Monday was a wild day. Well, let’s start with Sunday night. After Seattle beat San Francisco in a fantastic NFC title game, Seattle’s Richard Sherman gave an … interesting […]
Jason Isbell played in Charlotte last night. It was a fantastic show, but I’ve written about Isbell a couple of times already, so for now I’ll just mention two things: […]
Last night I used an iTunes card I got for my birthday (thanks, Katie and Elizabeth!) to watch the first half of the documentary on the Eagles. It’s really good. […]
The writer Catherine Marshall, via Dean Smith’s memoir, “A Coach’s Life“: Crisis brings us face to face with our inadequacy, and our inadequacy in turn leads us to the inexhaustible […]
From Questlove’s memoir, “Mo’ Meta Blues“: 1. I was and am so devoted to the review process that I write the reviews for my own records. Almost no one knows […]
Tomorrow I turn 50. I’m fairly sure at this point that my dream of playing in the NBA will not be realized. I think the rock-star dream might be gone, […]
I made a list of the best stuff I read, heard and saw in 2013 — it’s down at the bottom of this post — but in the end I […]
What follows, in no particular order, is my best work from the past year. But first, some thank-yous: Larry Burke at Sports on Earth, for letting me explore. Elizabeth Hudson […]
Today I’m going to do you a favor. I’m going to tell you about a band that people all over the country are going to be talking about in a […]