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Friday, September 23, 2011

Death of a friend

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When someone dies following an illness, the obituary often reveals the deceased "was surrounded by family and friends." The line ...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

NBA Flashback: Benson, Breuer and more

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I'm resigned to the fact I probably won't get to watch another live NBA game for about five or six months. Normally when October rol...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Jack, Nikita & some nukes

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I don't remember when we learned about the Cuban missile crisis in school. Probably in 8th grade, likely in the final 10 minutes of ...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Update: New post on TVFury, new post coming here

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Today on TVFury, we had an interview I did with former SJU quarterback Tom Linnemann. As always, Linnemann was extremely entertaining and ve...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Robby Benson, a tutor, a basketball, and a red-hot poker

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Any child of the '80s who dreamed of becoming an NBA star, or even only fantasized about hitting a game-winning jumper in the state tour...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

New post on TVFury

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I have a new post up on TVFury. Surprisingly, it's about basketball .
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

A new adventure

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A brief announcement. There's now yet another place to read me online. The world needed this. I've teamed up with my old friend and ...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

But how would Gandhi handle the sales staff?

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Nelson Mandela turned 93 today. One of the most important figures of the 20th Century continues to inspire a decade in to the 21st, though h...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

Magic's 1996 comeback: Not a complete disaster

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If I had to make a list of iconic images from Magic Johnson's career, I'd come up with the familiar ones known to Lakers everywhere:...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

Life at camp. Or not

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Lots of talk about camps these days. Friends are sending kids to swimming camps. Others are going to basketball camps. Teenagers we know a...
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Shawn Fury
I'm a freelance writer and editor, former newspaper reporter and the author of Keeping the Faith: In the trenches with college football's worst team. On February 23, 2016, Flatiron Books will publish my book about the history of the jump shot: Rise and Fire: The Origins, Science, and Evolution of the Jump Shot--And How It Transformed Basketball Forever. I'm obsessed with the Los Angeles Lakers, sports from the 1980s and Super Tecmo Bowl. I'm a Minnesota native and am married to a South African, but I now live in Manhattan. Also visit me at my website www.shawnfury.com. Write to me at shawnpfury at yahoo.com Or, to read even more of my ramblings, visit tvfury.wordpress.com.
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