Free Ballin’

I recently got back to NYC, after 5+ months of Free Ballin’. Over the final five weeks on the road, I covered 8 teams and hitchhiked about 3,000 miles, so I didn’t have a great deal of time for posting on this blog.  I have plenty of time now, and plenty of stories–from Al Green [...]

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Oh, did I mention I arrived in Milwaukee?  Those of you smarties following me on Twitter know the score, of course, as I kept people pretty up to date that way, when I didn’t have an internet connection.  For the rest of you, I’ll update you, a post for each day on the road. 3/15 [...]

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Shaq beat ‘em up proper, in Phoenix, last night, t0 my delight.  At first, I wasn’t quite sure why his 45-point performance pleased me so; I had never been a huge Shaq fan, growing up–and I mean that.  Some people say “not a huge fan” to indicate that they don’t like something or someone.  I [...]

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I almost got into a bar fight once.  This might surprise those who know me, as I’m uncommonly even-tempered, never owned a copy of Roadhouse, and avoid chatting up girls in front of their drunken boyfriends.  But this one time, it was a near thing. Actually, it wasn’t exactly a bar; it was a pizza [...]

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