When I’m reporting at Bulls games, I try to keep in mind that players are not required to have any patience whatsoever with members of the media. After all, we’re following them around and stalking them out in an attempt to get something we can print in our respective news outlets, and they know full [...]
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Most of the people I’ve been given the opportunity to meet over the last ten years have been either through my work at HOOPSWORLD, with Fresh Scouts, or working sound for musicians and comedians back when I was still in college. But once in a while I find a way to bump into someone meaningful [...]
In the months leading up to the summer of 1996, I convinced my parents to spend a few hundred dollars for me to attend the University of Illinois’s basketball camp, put on by then Illini head coach Lon Kruger. Considering the fact that at thirteen years old I was still three years away form my [...]
It’s one thing to be given the opportunity to meet a celebrity, but it’s something else entirely to be asked to entertain a celebrity for the better part of an afternoon. When my brother brought in Gavin DeGraw to play a show at our local university, he asked if I wouldn’t mind making sure Gavin [...]
My students asked me on Friday if I was planning on going to the first football game of the season, and I told them no. It had nothing to do with the fact that my high school’s football team has not been particularly successful the last two or six years (honestly, it didn’t), but that [...]
