Additional+Reading

= = = Jack McCallum, longtime NBA beat writer for //Sports Illustrated// (member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, Writer's Wing) =


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 * Jack McCallum ||

=** __REQUIRED READING FOR 2016__: **= = = =** [|"The Greatest Game Nobody Ever Saw"] **=

==**This is the piece Mr. McCallum told the** period 5 class in 2016 **was the piece he was most proud of in his career, and he even grew a little bit choked up when he was talking about the subject of the article: [|"Two Athletes, Two Soldiers"]**==

=** Background on Mr. McCallum from his own website (a great site!): [|"About the Author"] **=

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=__** Optional for 2014: **__= == [|On Kobe and LeBron] [|On the Celtics' 2008 title] ==

== Older article on[| the Bulls of Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan, 1991] ==

== An extra one for fun: [|Top 5 Most Memorable Assignments] ==

="The Four Horsemen," by Grantland Rice (see "Pages and Files")= = = =**"Miracle of Coogan's Bluff," by Red Smith (see "Pages and Files")**= = = =**"Game Called," by Grantland Rice (see "Pages and Files")**= = = = =

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=__**Alexander Wolff**__= =This link has a short bio on Mr. Wolff: [|Alexander Wolff short biography.]=

===**In this article, Mr. Wolff returns to Munich ten years after his article "When the Terror Began" and 40 years after the Olympic massacre to reflect on his personal connections to all of it. The article is very moving. [|"In Reconstructing Munich massacre, I Learned that History is Ever-Present"]**===

=**Very Special Article: [|"Sports Saves the World," by Alexander Wolff]**= =Read this in its entirety and jot down ideas it gives you. Also examine these websites and watch videos on them.[|Peace Players International][|Fight for Peace][|Grass Roots Soccer]= = =

=John Updike, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," Ted Williams:= Ted Williams Updike =Text of the Updike essay= =Allusions in the essay (art, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, geography, religion, architecture, etc.) -- Go to the "Updike essay" page on the left side of this page.= =//Sports Illustrated// on [|Updike's death in 2009]=

[|MSNBC on Updike's death]
= Poetry 1 =

=__**Steve Prefontaine**__=

Prefontaine handout packet

Steve Prefontaine Pre at Munich Olympics, 1972

== [|Pre site 1] [|Pre site 2] [|Kenny Moore on Pre on 2005] ** //[| Sports]//[|//Illustrated// cover article on Pre at age 19, 6/15/70] ** [| "Land of Pre"] == == [|Very moving Kenny Moore //Sports Illustrated// article just after Pre's death, "A Final Drive to the Finish] Just 5 months before Pre's death, in //Sports Illustrated//, [|"Search Your Soul, Then Run Like Blazes"] Pre's last college race, [|"Pre's Last Duck-Waddle"] [|//Sports Illustrated//, 1971, on Pre's coach Bill Bowerman]==

BBC version of 1972 Olympic 5000m; also //Sports Illustrated// article "When the Terror Began," by Alexander Wolff
= __Kenny Moore__ = === He ran in the Olympic marathon twice, 1968 and 1972, finishing fourth in 1972. He witnessed the Munich terrorist attack in 1972. He became the greatest track writer in the USA, a role he has had for more than 40 years now. Together with Frank Shorter, the marathon gold medalist in 1972 (and silver in 1976), he was one of Steve Prefontaine's two closest friends. They were the last two people to see Pre alive; Pre dropped them off just a few minutes before his fatal car accident. Kenny helped write the documentary on Pre, //Fire on the Track//, and the movie about about called //Without Limits//, starring Jared Leto as ===

Pre and Donald Sutherland as Coach Bill Bowerman. READ THIS ARTICLE OF HIS CALLED "[[file:Munich's Message by Kenny Moore pdf.pdf|Munich's Message"; ]]TAKE NOTES.
=== THIS AMAZING, MOVING ARTICLE HE WROTE IN 2012 ABOUT HIS 1972 MUNICH EXPERIENCE, AND ABOUT FINALLY BRINGING HIMSELF TO RETURN TO MUNICH IN 2009, IS [|"Olympic Tragedy: Munich 1972"] === If you have the time, this is a great recent interview with Kenny: [|"Kenny Moore Receives Hirsch Journalism Award"]







Here is the link to Kenny's incredible article about Mamo Wolde's ordeal: [|"The Ordeal of Mamo Wolde"]

=__**Frank Shorter**__=



==2012 article on Pre's close friend Frank Shorter, 1972 Olympic marathon gold medalist and 1976 Olympic marathon silver medalist. [|"Frank Shorter transformed sorrow of Munich into 1972 Olympic gold"]==

= //Wait Till Next Year//, by Doris Kearns Goodwin // : //= = [|Ebbets Field] = [|Jackie Robinson], [|Pee Wee Reese], [|Roy Campanella], [|Duke Snider], [|Gil Hodges], [|Don Newcombe], [|Ralph Branca],[|Clem Labine] [|Clem Labine's recent death][|Yogi Berra], [|Mickey Mantle], [|Phil Rizzuto], [|Willie Mays], [|Sal Maglie], [|Bobby Thomson],[| Preacher Roe] [|Allie Reynolds], [|Robin Roberts], [|Enos Slaughter], [|Alvin Dark]

[|"In Vero Beach, Dodger Blue Fades to Black"]
= Relevant special article on Boston Red Sox, perhaps the most moving article in //Sports Illustrated// history, [|Sportsmen of the Year for 2004] =

= Mike Wise of the //Washington Post// (videoconference guest) = =Go to the "Mike Wise, //WA Post//" page on the left side of this page for required reading on and by Mr. Wise.=

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Alberto Salazar:
== == == [|Biography][|"No Finish Line" (//Sports Illustrated//, 2007)][|Famous "Duel in the Sun" victory in 1982 Boston Marathon that went down to the wire][|Salazar sets marathon world record at 1981 New York City Marathon] ==

"A Piece of Steak"
= Marathon runner Greg Meyer, the last American to win the Boston Marathon (1983) =

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course record by 9 seconds. He is the last American to win the Boston marathon. (above right) Meyer (3) leading during the race.
= [|Background on Greg Meyer] = = [|"1983 Champ Greg Meyer Eager to Lose One Claim to Fame"] = = [|Meyer on Being the Last American to Win Boston (1-minute video)] = = Greg Meyer in 2010 =

= Bill Bradley (see the page for //A Sense of Where You Are//) = = = = [|Retiring Bradley and Kazmaier's #42] = = [|Death of Bradley's Princeton coach, Butch van Breda Kolff] = = John McPhee, author of //A Sense of Where You Are// =

PAT TILLMAN LINKS: [|Remember His Name] [|Pat Tillman, Our Hero] [|Pat Tillman's Mom: McChrystal Helped in Cover-Up][|Revisiting the Pat Tillman Story, and McChrystal's Role] [|Movie Review - The Tillman Story] [|Pat Tillman resources]

=Additional reading for your pleasure and enlightenment!= =**9/11**= [] [] [] [] [] [] []
 * Below are links to articles students are required to read as background to the documentary //Nine Innings from Ground Zero//. Read them in the order in which they are listed here, which is the order in which they appeared in the //New York Times// in September 2001. Finish with the article from Sports Illustrated that just came out in the issue dated 9/12/2011.**
 * These articles are important to enhance your enjoyment and understanding of the documentary. They are all very short and add up to just a few pages total, which you will have a couple of days to read. After viewing the documentary, you will have the chance to do group projects on topics that interest you from the combination of the articles and the documentary. :)**