“People get to keep their jobs – that’s all I was concerned about,” Don Young said on Saturday morning, standing a few feet away from a small, illuminated case that held one of Pete Maravich’s socks, which appeared to have been laundered. Don’s a design engineer for Cablevision in the Bronx. He came up to [...]

“A small wiry man in a tan golf jacket with a greasy duck-tail haircut who paced along the sidelines of both practice fields with a speedy kind of intensity….like a pimp or a track tout,” was Hunter S. Thompson’s take on the man, back in 1973, during the too-short month they hung together at Raider [...]

Hey dad: remember the Bronze Star you never sent back to St. Louis in ‘46 so the corps could send you a Silver Star instead because they decided that on review your actions taking the cave on Peleliu merited an upgrade, but they needed the bronze back first? And mom says you said, “F*** ‘em?” [...]