It was a dunk that occurred years before YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. And because it wasn't widely available, it captured the imagination of a nation. It even transfixed the man who did it. So one day, in Toronto, where he had gathered then-rookie Mo Peterson and a few other ...
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Even people ...