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Ted Turner’s 1978 Playboy interview is everything I hoped it would be

America was still getting to know Ted Turner in 1978. In the preceding two years he went from a nobody who owned a struggling VHF station in Atlanta to the winner of America’s cup and the owners of the Braves and Hawks. Contributing editor Ross Range “tape(d) everything, and because Turner’s mouth almost never stops, […]

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November 22, 2015

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August 18, 2013

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‘The man who watched Cy Young pitch, Joe Louis box …’

Jeff Schultz pays tribute to Furman Bisher, who informed generations of Atlanta sports fans. I started reading him at 6 years old. More than 30 years later, I was (technically) a colleague, though Mr. Bisher had no peer. “People look at me like I’m in a museum or something,” he said. “It’s like I’m one […]

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March 19, 2012

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Willie in ATL tonight

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February 12, 2012

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Meeting Don Cornelius

I was smoking a cigarette, on the back lot at Sony Studios in LA, when Don Cornelius — who died Tuesday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot — wheeled up in his vintage Mercedes, emerging with two fine young things old enough to be his granddaughters by his side. Still, he pulled it off.

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February 1, 2012

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