Free Ballin’

I arrived in Miami on December 28th ’08, without a place to stay.  I had floated numerous couchsurfing requests out to Miami CSers and received only one reply, negative.  She did direct me to an acquaintence, Brian, a recent couchsurfer, and I had an email out to him.  Without any other prospects, I checked into [...]

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It tires me just to think about the drive from North Carolina to Utah, but I’ll put it down here, for the record. I got a ride-share to Salt Lake City with a guy in Asheville, NC, who was heading to Montana for some business that was entirely legit, in a car that wasn’t, but [...]

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I’m planning for the cross-country venture I’m taking in some ten days, from North Carolina to Los Angeles, and weighing the pros and cons of ride-sharing vs. hitchhiking.  Don’t mind if I think aloud here… It’s a fairly simple issue.  Ride-sharing is vastly more comfortable and vastly more expensive.  I needn’t really go into detail [...]

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I’m hitchhiking out of Charlotte today, up to the house of a friend of my mother’s, in Little Switzerland, NC, which I’m told is sensational, overlooking Mt. Mitchell (tallest peak east of the Rockies.) My next game is the Clippers/Celtics, on February 25th, in Los Angeles.  My plan is to stay in Little Switzerland for [...]

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Last night I was interviewed by Scott Lauer for Bobcats radio; it was fun.  Atlanta Hawks radio play-by-play man Steve Holman and Cartier Martin, just signed by the Bobcats to a 10-day contract, also interviewed.  But I think it was clear to everyone that my finale was really the highlight of  the show. Well, actually [...]

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As this project has progressed, I’ve become a much more efficient traveler, able to arrange for housing without a great deal of difficulty, and getting from A to B at least a little faster than I did at the beginning of my trip.  However, that learning curve left me a little behind my originally proposed [...]

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Add the Robert Johnsons to my cool list.  They’re leaving me a few tickets at Will Call for Friday’s game against the Hawks.  I’m excited to see how they look, post Richardson trade.  I saw them in New Orleans the night of the trade, and they looked awful, but they didn’t really have much of [...]

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A number of people have asked me what I thought of my week in Asheville, NC, and I have virtually nothing to say. I didn’t do Asheville. The allure of Asheville is the lifestyle and the attitude of the people who live there, and I had almost no interaction with anyone there, with two notable [...]

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The Hornets weren’t quite as responsive to my press credentials/tickets inquiries as Dallas and San Antonio were so…well, that’s probably not fair. I sent an email to one of their PR staff on 11/25 and received an understandable “Who the hell are you?” the next day.  I intended to respond that day, when I thought [...]

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