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Selected stories from my five decades

in the greatest sport

Tales & Tips

Jan 72 min read

The Book on Ted Haydon is Out!

I’ve interviewed over one hundred people for this book and would have spoken with more if I could have located them, the twenty-year-olds...

Dec 10, 20241 min read

View from Cable Lake Scenes near Cable Lake Bar scene at Club Innuendo Gray's Gin Grand piano 7227 S. Coles

Nov 1, 20241 min read

The first of two in "A Tale of Two Runners" series, this novel follows the prep careers of a father and his son competing in different...

Sep 2, 20248 min read

Steve Skogstad pushed open the gymnasium door like he was deflecting a tackler on the gridiron, talking animatedly about the Bear’s...

Aug 25, 20246 min read

I slipped in through the back door and hung up my coat, jamming the medallion into my pants pocket as I opened the refrigerator,...

Aug 18, 20242 min read

Over the next weeks and months I'm releasing an unpublished novel, chapter by chapter, evoking the era when books were first published in...