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Beat By The Old Age Truck

March 7, 2010 – 1:39 pm

New York’s newspapers reported that this January was the warmest January on record, but I can’t recall a single day since early December with the temperature out of the 30s. Yesterday the thermometer hit 45 and I picked up the telephone to call Shannon. “You want to shot some ball at deKalb.” The playground was […]

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Why Shannon Greer Cannae Play Basketball

August 2, 2008 – 2:53 pm

I know Shannon Greer since he was 16. A West Village teenager with a good jump shot. He was a clean version of Jim Carroll, the junkie author of BASKETBALL DIARIES. I let him into the Milk Bar. Scottie Taylor, my boss, asked if he was under age. “Not as far as I know.”

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