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On St. Patrick’s Day 1979, Jock Sutherland was within hours of achieving his lifelong dream, and he had a hard time mustering a smile. This chapter is excerpted from The Quickest Thinking Coach in America: JOCK (copyright 2023 by Mr. Write Coach LLC) March 17, 1979 Jock Sutherland was miserable on this Saturday morning. The…
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The ballroom of the Brown Hotel in Louisville was illuminated with star power on June 25, 1999. Heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali, back in his hometown where he grew up as Cassius Clay, was presented a lifetime achievement award by the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. Jockey Steve Cauthen, who had won the first leg of…
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(This chapter is excerpted from “Akron’s Daily Miracle,” copyright 2019, University of Akron Press By Tim Smith Sometime in late 1979, (memory dims after a couple weeks, let alone after 40 years), two Akron police detectives – Helmut Klemm and Sgt. Ed Duvall – were investigating the reappearance of handguns that were supposed to have…
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(Excerpted from “A Placed Called WriterL: Where the Conversation Was Always About Literary Journalism” copyright 2022 Jon Franklin, Lynn Franklin and Stuart Warner) Photo of Michael Green by Eustacio Humphrey/The Plain Dealer 2002 Before Christmas of 2002, WriterL member Deborah Robson wrote an excellent critique of the writing techniques Connie Schultz used to develop the…
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Chapter 3 This is an excerpt from “A Place Called WriterL: Where the Conversation Was Always About Literary Journalism,” copyright 2022 Mr. Write Coach LLC. Writers have long mulled the relationship between their craft and music, none more eloquently than E.B. White in the final chapter of “Elements of Style.” “Here is where we…
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I have used this excerpt from Jon Franklin’s book “The Wolf in the Parlor” (copyright 2009 Jon Franklin.) as an example of why the kind of writing we talked about on WriterL is important. Jon inherited a dog, a standard-bred poodle named Charlie, with his marriage to Lynn. At the time, they were living in…
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(This chapter is excerpted from “Akron’s Daily Miracle,” edited by Stuart Warner and Deb Van Tassel Warner, copyright 2020, University of Akron Press) By Dale Allen In less than a month after those of us in the news room were patting ourselves on the back for winning the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the…
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By Stuart Warner Forgive me if I have cold feet, or any other extremities, about plunging into the ice fishing debate in Hudson, Ohio, the city where I lived for 15 years, and which I ridiculed as a columnist for almost a decade before that.. Hudson’s mayor created a media storm this week after declaring…
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(This is a chapter from my non-fiction book, JOCK: A Coach’s Story, Wind Publications, 2009. Fall of 1968 Irvine Stewart says he didn’t know what to expect that morning, Aug. 28, 1968 — the day the Democratic Presidential Convention was about the tear apart Chicago and the nation and four days after he turned 15…