From the Arena of the Unwell to the Arena of My Dreams
My NBA media dream was forged amid harsh adversity, including two major hurdles. One hurdle was physical. The other was mental. My story begins at two pounds and three ounces. That’s what I weighed as a newborn when ER doctors rushed to intubate my collapsed lungs. Those lungs entered the world three months too soon. […]
Painting the Corners
The kid didn’t look the least bit sorry. There he was – top pitching prospect in the city, maybe one of the top five in the country, on a state championship-bound team in a huge media market – gone viral for hurling fastballs through factory windows for TikTok likes. This tells you how long I’ve […]