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Memphis takes a turn trying to understand Allen Iverson
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Iverson. The summer before I had traveled to his hometown of Hampton, Virginia to see his celebrity softball game and fundraiser. I had talked to his mom, to his confidant Gary Moore, and to the...
Blog | October 27, 2009Sherman Alexie: Cage the Pit Bull
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...rollerblades and lifts three days a week and mountain climbs and hikes and runs and plays summer softball and volleyball on a co-ed team at the gym and plays pickup hoops maybe twice a...
Blog | May 19, 2009A Very Sad Press Release
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...dollars to Utah-based colleges and universities for campus improvements such as the state-of-the-art softball and baseball complexes at BYU. The Larry H. Miller Campus of the Salt Lake Community College (SLCC...
Blog | February 20, 2009Three Anecdotes About Retina Injuries
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPoor Amare Stoudemire. That's my main thought, after bringing together two ideas: A brief report on what he has been through, and extensive conver...
Blog | February 20, 2009Athletes Who Don't Act Like Your Co-Workers
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...yourself thinking, "Man, I really respect Andy. He really wants this." Have you ever been on a softball team with a dude who muttered to himself whenever he made an error and screamed at teammates...
Blog | December 15, 2008Thursday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...late, like ten thirty or something, and Mike was shooting all by himself. The lights from the softball field, where the bar leagues played, illuminated the courts. I wanted to play him one on one...
Blog | September 25, 2008Notes from Hanging Around Draft Prospects
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...the piranhas" kind of way. Only, at this point, the media are hardly piranhas. These are all softball questions. The players are new to everybody. It's a feeling out process. I spent most of...
Blog | June 25, 2008Monday Mini-Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...index finger (this, by the way, was the same finger that had been mangled in a college softball game before Larry's rookie season). The injury hadn't occurred in a game and nobody within...
Blog | June 09, 2008Thomas Beller's "Scenes From a Playground"
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...middle of the city, with dented up hoops stuck on it, a playground at one end, a softball diamond at the other, the whole thing populated by dog walkers, bench sitters, a few kids and...
Blog | March 18, 2008Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Journal report of his death describes one amazing episode: "Stepien also had business interests in a pro softball association and in 1980 took part in a publicity stunt by throwing five balls from the 52nd...
Blog | September 11, 2007A Note About Dog Fighting, and Stephon Marbury
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopYesterday, in the Wednesday Bullets, I wrote: Stephon Marbury as shown on Channel 9 in Albany, and transcribed by Newsday's Alan Hahn: "We don't say ...
Blog | August 23, 2007Friday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...know the answer to, but I do know that the best team in a high profile DC softball league is called the "One Hitters" and is made up of people who are against the war...
Blog | August 03, 2007Wednesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...I was talking to SLAM Editorial Assistant Konate Primus about how my sole value to the office softball team is speed. We got into a semi-heated chat about which one of us runs faster...
Blog | August 01, 2007Player with a Past: Pierre Pierce
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopIf you watched the opening days of Summer League, you saw a lot of jittery players, and that's no surprise: Many are in this setting for the first tim...
Blog | July 10, 2007A New Seattle Sports Blog
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...to use it. Seely quotes Salon's King Kaufman (who used to play third base on a softball team with Seely) on stadium funding: When politicians are trying to sell stadium welfare to the voters...
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