Five months after his wife died and a week before the Bears' first Super Bowl appearance since 1986, the doctors crack his sternum, extract three veins from his left thigh, and perform triple bypass, sewing up Bill’s chest like the laces of a football, which will slowly scab over and, if he doesn’t pick them, heal.
Read MoreI tell you this because I cried when Dan Wheldon died
and I knew it was okay because my father cried when Dale Earnhardt died
because I had the dream of playing first base for the St. Louis Cardinals when I was young
and when they won the World Series in 2011 a friend asked “who died?”
Read MoreA basketball game consists of four quarters (and overtime if necessary). A finite amount of time, space, and structure set up to hold the infinite number of stories and threads that can unwind from a game, a season, a career, and so on.
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