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Wisconsin Basketball: A detour on the road to greatness
When I was a senior at college, at the University of Wisconsin, the athletic department paid me $5 per hour to teach Spanish to athletes…. Some of the athletes, especially those who traveled a lot, needed help to get through their foreign language pre-reqs. Every week, I’d set up appointments at the library with runners, swimmers, and football players. None of them, as far as I could tell, was getting much out of Spanish. ¶ Then I got the basketball captain, a point guard named Bob Falk. He had been one of Madison’s greatest high school athletes, all-state in both football and basketball.
Stephen BakerApr 6, 2015
The first tee. It’s the place where I find myself, and lose myself. The golf course or green’s fee…
It’s a beautiful thing. There I stand, full of hope and focus. Rarely do I take the time to stretch, practice or prepare. 9 times out of 10…is (within reason) inconsequential. Once I cross the threshold onto the bent grass box, sprinkled with a cornucopia of severed tees and sand-covered scars, the markers are the last thing between me and a 4.5-inch circle, 400 yards of rarefied air away. ¶ It’s a beautiful thing. There I stand, full of hope and focus. Rarely do I take the time to stretch, practice or prepare. 9 times out of 10 I go in cold.
@StevepeaseMar 2, 2015
