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NIGHTS IN WHITE CASTLE out now from @littlebrown . STING-RAY AFTERNOONS out in paperback. steverushinbooks @gmail .com

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My next book is NIGHTS IN WHITE CASTLE, a memoir of high school, college and leaving home in the 1980s. It answers the question, “Whatever happened to that kid from Sting-Ray Afternoons?” Judge this one by its gorgeous cover. Available for pre-order now.

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7 years

If he walked a third time on this play, you’d have to call it.

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Kobe & Gigi sat with us at a UConn game in March. He somehow talked to our kids as his basketball equals. Told our 10yo, “Keep getting after it, Thomas.” To our tall daughter: “Posting up is the BEST.” He was a Dad with his lovely daughter on a day out. We’re heartsick tonight.

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Synchronized swimmers would keep their story straight.

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Watching NBA game. Daughter: “What’s that half circle in the lane?” Me: “You can’t take a charge inside it.” Wife: “Unless the play originated in the lower defensive box or you’re the primary defender.” Me: [Sigh]

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Joe Ross is just the second pitcher named for two Friends characters to start a World Series game (after Chandler Monica, 1935 Tigers.)

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takes you to the Minnesota tourism site.

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Dementia robbed him of memory and he no longer recognized close friends, but sportswriter Jim Caple could still summon three names: "Willie Mays," "Novak Djokovic" and--most often--"Sue Bird." Why? A beautiful life in three GOATs. via @SInow

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Love and Sports: For Jim Caple and Wife Vicki, They Went Hand in Hand

As dementia and ALS soon took over Caple’s life, he held on to what was most familiar to him: Willie Mays, Novak Djokovic, Sue Bird and his wife Vicki.

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Playing hoops with my son in the driveway. “Mind if we watch?” says a guy walking by with his wife. “There aren’t any games on TV.”

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I can’t go to sleep before Larry King.

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Took kids to ⁦ @smithsonian ⁩ ⁦ @amhistorymuseum ⁩ and saw Lincoln’s top hat, Dorothy’s slippers and—a surprise to all of us—Mom’s jersey. 16-year-old: “Well, that’s weird.”

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Maroon 5 Patriots 3

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Astros-Rays series at Minute Maid Park and Tropicana Field would be a victory for Big Pulp.

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This is the third time Brad Stevens has taken a mid-major to the Final Four.

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Girl hands Sue Bird a flower as she’s inbounding the ball.

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In case her van breaks down on a desolate highway, wife keeps just enough emergency provisions to run a three-day basketball camp.

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Passed a parking lot with “In” and “Exit” signs and daughter said, “Come on, it has to be In and Out or Enter and Exit,” and then I pulled over and wept with pride.

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6 years

In the future there will be just one annual NFL game, litigated in court for months afterward.

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So mortifying. Kids walked in on me watching “60 Minutes.”

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7 years

Fine. I'll make the school lunches.

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Chicago’s Top Sister Jeans: 1. Loyola’s Sister Jean 2. Ferris’ sister Jean (but a lotta guys call her Shauna).

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My wife’s mail vs my mail.

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Kobe with Oscar.

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To safely DVR this game for my son, I recorded Game 5 AND late local news, 2 Two & a Half Mens, 2 Big Bang Theorys & 1:30 am's Amazing Abs.

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9 years

I tried putting the Patriots game on my car radio but all I'm getting are the Steelers' plays.

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5 years

I can’t overstate what SI has meant to my life. It fueled my adolescent dreams, sent me to seven continents, brought me to the city where I met my wife. But tonight I’m thinking of the talented people leaving, some of whom I’ve come to know and admire only as a reader.

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Is this the same kid—in the same outfit—playing Jarts *and* riding the Sting-Ray? ⁦ @Super70sSports ⁩

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5 years

My dad was a 10-year-old boy in Indiana on D-Day. “I’ve always wanted to pay my respects,” he said, so today he and his five kids went to the Normandy American cemetery and Omaha Beach, a profoundly moving experience.

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Cavs did that thing where you dump all your Scrabble tiles back in the bag and draw seven new ones.

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I don’t know what kind of milk we buy. You don’t know the ages of our kids. She’s 13, not 15. #Checkmate

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Been married 15 years. Have four kids ranging in age from 7-15. Today @SteveRushin texted asking if we buy 2% or 1% milk. #Whaaaaat ?

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6 years

From my Dad last night. Tough but fair.

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7 years

If your wife is ever enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame, you should drop her a note. Mine to @RebeccaLobo :

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Not what the kids were expecting.

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In addition to everything else, Bill Russell was a big fan of the WNBA and had infinite patience with babies on airplanes.

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10 years

I am already stuck in traffic for the 2024 Boston Olympics.

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Bill Walton once told me his Dad “was the most unathletic man I’ve ever seen.” Ted loved art, music and sang in the church choir. Bill’s Mom, Gloria, was a librarian, so Bill read voraciously. “My parents gave me the perfect life,” he said. “Opportunities to stimulate my mind.”

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8 years

"1984" is a prescient masterwork that still speaks to us across the ages. Well done, Van Halen.

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Kids: Can we adopt a puppy? Me: Absolutely not. We already have a dog. No, final answer, leave me alone. Kids: But look. Me: Dammit. Help me roll up the carpet.

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Twenty-five Rushins are at the Twins game today to celebrate Dad’s 85th birthday. The Man, The Myth, The Legend.

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Sid Hartman took me to breakfast at the Decathlon Club in 1990, at the start of my career, and sent a Murray’s gift card in 2019, near the end of my career. His career was eternal. When I told my dad Sid died, he said, as if to refute it: “His column’s in the paper this morning.”

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7 years

Wife put stage directions in her HOF speech so cameras could find family members. Just seeing her description of me.

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6 years

Two things I’ll miss as daughter’s first HS hoop season ends: 1. listening, like a doctor with a stethoscope, for the beating heart of a dozen basketballs through a steel door to find my way into road gyms. 2. giving her the socks off my feet when she forgets hers (tonight only).

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I appreciate the honesty.

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Found @RebeccaLobo ’s spelling test from May 8, 1981. She capitalized Bird, assuming teacher meant Larry.

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5 years

Never want it to come down to a 3-point field goal at US Bank stadium.

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That escalated quickly.

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Nun. A Loyola nun. #palindromes

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3 years

Kids have repurposed the Christmas countdown calendar.

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6 years

Great day seeing @RebeccaLobo ’s number retired and chatting with these UConn superfans.

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Breanna Stewart—who won four national championships in college, was named MOP of four Final Fours, won 3 National Player of the Year awards, was WNBA Rookie of the Year and is now league MVP—shows promise.

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6 years

I love the smell of a felt-tipped pen attached to a string attached to a voting booth installed in a high school auxiliary gym in the morning.

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I wrote about women’s basketball, the men who love it and the ongoing work for gender equity in the NCAA tournaments, for ⁦ @CNNOpinion ⁩.

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5 years

Eldest daughter went to WNBA draft with her mom but requested I stay back at the hotel because “This is a once-in-a-lifetime night for these women and they don’t need to see you in your hobo pants.” Touché.

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9 years

The Cardinals will post all the hacked documents on WachaLeaks.

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The day after @RebeccaLobo was traded from New York to Houston, Regis Philbin approached our lunch table and said, “Lobo! We’re gonna miss you in New York, kiddo.” He was lovely and sounded very much like Dana Carvey’s impersonation of Regis.

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6 years

The girl we sent to kindergarten ten minutes ago graduated from 8th grade today in this.

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Son: “Will Mom be home tonight?” Me: “No.” Son: “She’s never home!” Daughter: “It’s called March Madness. Deal with it.”

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6 years

Today’s playlist (correcting yesterday’s playlist): I Wouldn’t Die 4 U—Prince (I Wouldn’t Walk) 500 Miles—The Proclaimers I Wouldn’t Do Anything For Love—Meat Loaf

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Me: “Great job. You really looked alive at shortstop.” 7-y-o: “A bee was chasing me the whole game.”

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4 years

On meeting Geno Auriemma in 2012, Joe Biden said, “If I had your hair, I’d be President.”

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5 years

It is every hockey player’s dream to lift the Stanley Cup while yelling one of nine variations of the F-bomb.

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Playing smoke detector Marco Polo: hear chirp, go to presumed source of chirp, endure several minutes of silence, hear chirp two rooms away, repeat for two hours.

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6 years

Looking for something else in a box in the basement I found Dad’s 1952 Big Ten football champions belt buckle.

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Watching The Last Dance with my wife when she says of the ‘98 All-Star Game at MSG: “Tim Hardaway’s sitting in my locker.”

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6 years

Best Games I've Slept Through: 3. 2006 Rose Bowl 2 (tie). 2008-2017 World Serieses 1. UMBC-Virginia

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Jeremy Roenick just described his biggest playoff disappointment as the 1-seed Blackhawks’ 1991 opening round series loss to the 8-seed North Stars at Met Center, after which a kid hit him in the face with a hot dog as he left the ice.

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9 years

Sepp Blatter will now present the trophy via teleconference, from his secure mountain lair.

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5 years

20 years ago I arrive at midnight to a little ranch house SI has rented at the Masters. Tiptoeing down a dark hall, looking for my room, I’m startled by a tall, kind man outside the bathroom. “Hi,” he says, toothbrush in hand. “I’m John Havlicek.” “Of course you are,” I reply.

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10 years

Happy for the American Athletic Conference. They've waited five months for this.

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6 years

My dad on the two principals in this summit: “They deserve each other’s barbers.”

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6 years

Red Sox are on pace to go 141-21 and get no-hit seven times.

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5 years

Here’s my @sinow story about the glorious life and slow death of paper tickets, and all the stubs and stories that survive.

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The death of paper tickets and the memories they've left us

The digital age is upon us. With all th efficiency it's brought into our lives, something has been left behind: paper tickets.

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Darkness. “Dad?” “Go to sleep.” “I think I pulled my hammy.” “You don’t even know what that is.” “It’s a hamstring.” “Go to sleep.” “Dad?” “What?!” “Do pigs pull a me-string?” “I’m leaving.”

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Frank Deford was more kind than he was brilliant, and more brilliant than he was tall. And he was very, very tall.

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6 years

Wife is flying home from Seattle today and back to Seattle tomorrow even though I told her everything is under control here.

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5 years

8-year-old daughter came home from Scholastic book fair today and said, “Dad, I bought a book for YOU!” And then my eyes welled up from all the pollen in the air.

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1 year

The kind you find in a secondhand store.

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4 years

I visited the Antetokounmpos of Milwaukee to see what they’ve meant to the city and the city has meant to them. From the land of Bronze Fonz and Greek Freak:

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The New Colossus

The last NBA MVP who called Milwaukee home (Kareem) forced a trade to L.A. Giannis Antetokounmpo is a year away from free agency, but this time the Cream City can call on its special relationship...

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6 years

On their deathbed, every Minnesotan sees a montage of every missed Vikings’ field goal ever.

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7 years

Dodgers have stranded 8 already. That's one more than the S.S. Minnow.

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7 years

42 years ago he signed an autograph for me. Today I got to sign a book for Alan Page, my hero still. @dianesimspage

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3 years

Hall of Fame welcomes Tony Oliva of Bloomington and ex-Burnsville guy Jim Kaat. Induction ceremony at David Fong’s.

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Once wrote a column on Ireland and got a lovely letter from a kind man named John Mahoney, who mentioned his desire to spend time there in retirement, adding parenthetically that he was currently employed on a TV show called Frasier.

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"They break your heart every time." Until suddenly they don't. I wrote this about the Vikings.

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On the Vikings, Broken Hearts and Unfettered Joy

For Minnesotans, the ending of Saints-Vikings was looking all too inevitable. But remember Ahmad Rashad, Tommy Kramer and Squadron Right ... ?

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2 years

So happy for Dusty Baker, who once told me: “My whole career—my life, really—has been a dream. For 36 years my dad worked two jobs. In the day he was a civilian working for the military. On his second job he’d cut lawns, tack roofs, tack seats at the theater, sold TVs at Sears.”

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10 years

Phil Knight's mission is complete. There is a Nike cloud over Gillette Stadium. http://t.co/osrQ10yqD1

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It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down, I had the radio on, I was drivin. Trees flew by, me & Del were singin little Runaway, I was flyin

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6 years

I wrote a feature on Lindsay Whalen for @sinow .

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Before this kid changed clothes, threw lawn darts and rode his Sting-Ray, he and Jarts girl walked home from school, down that same sidewalk, 50 years ago this month, on August 28, 1970. @Super70sSports

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7 years

Before there was a Cyber Monday, or an internet, there was the Sears Christmas Wish Book, 600 toy-riddled pages that held you spellbound for a month.

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5 years

Puffy-coated crusader roams city at dusk, putting up nets, atoning for the times she cut them down. cc: @marvel

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3 years

Fantastic women’s tournament. Now we do our annual cranking of “Yakety Sax” and speed-clean the house.

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3 years

As I recited every syllable, the mortified 14-year-old sank deeper and deeper in her shotgun seat, then disappeared beneath a blanket.

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6 years

Just discovered great life hack to get burned rice out of saucepan: 1) mix two cups water, two tablespoons white vinegar 2) bring to boil 3) let simmer 10 minutes 4) throw away saucepan.

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5 years

Camped in front of CBS with my chips and my neck pillow only to find that The Young & The Restless isn’t on today.

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8 years

Like Cubs' drought, Take Me Out to the Ballgame began in 1908. Seldom have two teams so earned the line, "If they don't win it's a shame."

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