MARADONABoy. Vaccine. God.by Guillem Balague “Gods don’t retire,” Eduardo Galeano once said of Diego Maradona, “no matter how human they are.” Desperate Maradona thought of doing just that. Traveling on a world tour with Argentine club Boca Juniors and collapsing under the pressure of becoming a sudden star, he was only 20 years old when …
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Chicago White Sox right-hand man LaMarr Hoyt, who combined outstanding control with a beautiful platinum ball to win the 1983 Cy Young Award as the American League’s premier pitcher, died Monday in Columbia, SC. He was 66 years old. His son, Matthew, said the cause was cancer. An explanation on the team’s website. Hoyt was …
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Movies based on popular songs often bring details to the table to better take advantage of hooks. Bobbie Gentry’s 1976 film adaptation of “Ode to Billy Joe” tackled a question the song couldn’t answer: What exactly did Billy Joe and the narrator threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge? On the other hand, the entire 1954 movie …
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Last week, I received a package in the mail. Contents include: chunks of thick, copper-colored foil; water, air and gold paint bottles; a booklet with photographs of dancers painted in gold among giant, crumpled pieces of the same foil; and one Google Cardboard Viewer to turn my smartphone into virtual reality glasses. These were all …
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