This article was originally supposed to be published for Il Messaggero. It was given to me as an assignment, after the editor and legal expert of the newspaper saw the Maxim interview with famed FBI profiler, John Douglas, in the January 2011 issue. When the article was turned in, albeit shortened, my editor told me […]
8 Players Banned From Baseball Not Named Pete Rose
Alex Rodriguez’s recent confession that he used steroids while with the Texas Rangers is being mentioned as one of baseball’s biggest scandals ever. (Rodriguez is the same fellow who’s been discussed as possibly the greatest player ever, and he plays for the retooled Yankees, a team that’s got an outside shot at being one of […]
Part 16: El Camino de Santiago
Chapter 16 The hills, a preview of the mountains beyond JAMES Camino Day 16 Buenos dias Los amigos. This will be short and brief people – I am broken, completely and utterly broken. My fingers are about to become the last part of my body to go into a coma! I have decided that the […]
MAN OF LA MATCHLESS
MAN OF LA MATCHLESS Ron Gluch bought what he thought was a fairly common Matchless motorcycle thirty six years ago for twenty five dollars, and tossed it in his barn. Ten years ago, Ad Coppens visited him, took one look at it, and said “You know that […]
Mr One Dollar
The sun was setting as the Iran Air Jumbo Jet taxied gently down the runway of Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates. I admired the view of Dubai’s modern architecture as we took off into the clear sky over the Persian Gulf and banked eastwards. I was flying to Tehran a day ahead […]