Basketball: A Love Story, a 20-hour, 10-part documentary on the game, debuts tonight (7 p.m. edt) on ESPN.
BASKETBALL: A LOVE STORY
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A BAG OF BALLS, A LOT OF QUESTIONS
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Former New York Mets catcher Ed Hearn says he has a bag of baseballs in his cellar. They are all from 1986; all from the National League Championship Series; all evidence that Michael Warren Scott cheated. The rumors started long before the NLCS. In May 1985, during one of Scott’s starts at Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs first baseman Leon Durham found a piece of sandpaper near the mound, “brand...
BOONE JUDGE’S AARON
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Just when you think the Yankees – Red Sox rivalry is beginning to wane, the two teams meet in the postseason and order is quickly restored. Following the Yankees 6-2 win at Fenway Park in Game 2, Aaron Judge left the building blasting New York, New York on his boom box.
PRICE OF WINNING SAMPLE CHAPTER
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Plattsburgh, New York is a small town, located 60 miles south of the Montreal, Quebec, Canada border and 32 miles north of Burlington, Vermont. The most notable United States city near Plattsburgh is Lake Placid, New York, a modest village and the famed setting for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games where the U.S. men’s ice hockey team upset Russia to win the gold medal, better known as the “Miracle...
