Living in the Shadow of Ruben Salazar
I HAD BEEN IN LOS ANGELES ONLY a couple of days in 1978 when the unique pressures on Chicano journalists in this
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Why I’ve Written About Mickey Mantle
I WAS ATTRACTED TO THE double tragedy of Mickey’s youth and his death hanging over him and how he loses the one
I Believe in Tom Wolfe, the Writer Almighty…
THE POPE WALKED into the office today. His presence was high-fashion pietistic. Divine off-white three-piece suit, his manicured hands cradling a
The Religion of Sports: From Michelangelo to Derek Jeter
IF I WERE TO SAY MICHELANGELO AND SISTINE CHAPEL, what image would immediately come to mind? For most people, I think, it
Of Henry Cisneros, Dreams and Mortality
MY FATHER NEVER said so, but I always got the impression that he wished Henry Cisneros had been his son. Henry and
When We All Wanted To Be Hemingway
A CHILD OF THE BOOMER generation, I grew up desperately wanting to be Ernest Hemingway. To run with the bulls in Pamplona. To