NIGHTS IN WHITE CASTLE out now from @littlebrown. STING-RAY AFTERNOONS out in paperback. steverushinbooks@gmail.com
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My next book is NIGHTS IN WHITE CASTLE, a memoir of high school, college and leaving home in the 1980s. It answers the question, “Whatever happened to that kid from Sting-Ray Afternoons?” Judge this one by its gorgeous cover. Available for pre-order now. amazon.com/Nights-White-Cast…
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Biamba Mutombo sold Cokes at the Ali-Foreman Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa in 1974. “All I know of the fight is she made a lot of money that night,” her son Dikembe told me in the Time & Life cafeteria lunch line, while dapping every rubber-gloved hand that served him.
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“I love this country,” Dikembe said. “It’s a blessed country, especially for those of us who came here, were given an education and blessed to play basketball. One lesson my mother taught me was the more you give, the more blessings you receive.”
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Because all hockey is local, @rebeccalobo asked if the Hartford Whalers or the Hartford Wolfpack coach just won the Stanley Cup.
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Bill Walton once told me his Dad “was the most unathletic man I’ve ever seen.” Ted loved art, music and sang in the church choir.
Bill’s Mom, Gloria, was a librarian, so Bill read voraciously. “My parents gave me the perfect life,” he said. “Opportunities to stimulate my mind.”
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By wild coincidence, Tim and I once played 2-on-2 vs Adam Sandler and a 17-y-o named Mikey. Tim was raining 3s. By even wilder coincidence, I ran into Sandler at Yankee Stadium that night and he said of Tim: “Your buddy was awesome.” And he is.
23 May 2024
The only thing hanging out with @steverushin will get you is...fun. Time for a rematch, @adamsandler?
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30 Jan 2024
Had my first byline in Sports Illustrated in 1987. Two thirds of a lifetime later, here’s my latest, on Las Vegas. No idea what the future holds but I do appreciate all the kind words about SI and all the good people who have worked there over the years. si.com/nfl/2024/01/30/super-…
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Dementia robbed him of memory and he no longer recognized close friends, but sportswriter Jim Caple could still summon three names: "Willie Mays," "Novak Djokovic" and--most often--"Sue Bird." Why? A beautiful life in three GOATs.
si.com/mlb/2023/10/10/love-s… via @SInow
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“Rebecca Lobo not included.”
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Before you go see #BarbieTheMovie …
Take a drive down memory lane with this Legendary WNBA #Barbie commercial from 1998 starring @RebeccaLobo
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21 May 2023
I’ve read and remembered more of Martin Amis than any other author. Got this in London. Next day, he sat next to me in Wimbledon press seats. Would’ve asked him to sign, but it WAS signed. So I said nothing. Shyness can stop you from saying all the things in life you’d like to.
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19 May 2023
At his home in the Hollywood Hills in 1994, I asked Jim Brown how he’d like to be remembered. He said, “On the popular level, they'll say, ‘He was a football player. Controversial. Threw a girl out the window.' I don't care. Maybe they'll say, 'He was honest.’”
19 May 2023
In 1994 @SteveRushin, in what then the longest story in @SInow, wrote that you couldn't tell the story of modern sports without Jim Brown at the center of it. This is Chapter 4 of Steve's 5-chapter magnum opus. It's something si.com/more-sports/2014/08/0…
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“I came up at the crossroads of segregation,” Jim Brown told me. “There were still colleges where black players couldn’t play. There were teams that would go south and black players had to stay in private homes. There were difficult times...”
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“It was a blessing on one hand because there were opportunities, but it was demeaning because you were still looked on as inferior," Brown said. "It was almost as if you’d been given a favor. And you always felt you had to perform much, much better.”
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Attended my first game of the pitch clock era today, a 2-0 Yankee win in a glorious two hours and seven minutes—one minute slower than Don Larsen’s perfect game, also 2-0, across the street 67 years ago. Love it.
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13 Apr 2023
Twins, incognito in new M hats, lead unsuspecting Yankees 9-0 in the first.
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As teens, they drove across the country, Stan’s foot on the gas, Jeff’s hands on the wheel. It’s still kind of like that for Jeff and Stan Van Gundy, brothers and broadcasters. I wrote about them for @SInow. si.com/nba/2023/04/11/jeff-a…
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🎞️Taking a trip down memory lane to when the LEGENDARY @RebeccaLobo was featured on Sesame Street. #TBT
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