David Smale
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David Smale is a veteran sportswriter and author of 28 books to date. Read positive stories on people in sports 3X/week at https://t.co/FpK0NonZra.
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3 days ago |
myinsidestory.substack.com | David Smale
Ryan Krzykowski grew up in southwest Florida, an ideal place to grow up if you love sports. The weather is great pretty much year-round. Other than the occasional tropical storm, there’s little that can get in the way of playing sports outdoors. Krzykowski played a lot of sports, but he got really good at football and baseball. It became his world. “I was really obsessed and consumed by sports,” he said. “There’s some good that comes from that.
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5 days ago |
myinsidestory.substack.com | David Smale
I was saddened over the weekend by the news of the death of Steve Miller. I considered Steve a friend. The cause of death was not announced publicly, but he had been battling several ailments over the past few years. He had bouts with cancer and COVID, he had heart issues and even was in an accident. Through it all, he remained positive. He and I had not …Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to My Inside Story to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
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1 week ago |
myinsidestory.substack.com | David Smale
I was interviewing longtime friend Dick Enberg for a story for the 2017 Final Four program. Enberg had just completed a 58-year career in broadcasting and the NCAA wanted to pay tribute to one of the best-known and most-loved broadcasters in history.
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1 week ago |
myinsidestory.substack.com | David Smale
The next time you’re out and about in Kansas City and run into Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, you might ask him if he’s really Andy Reid. You might be talking with Matt Black. Black looks so much like Reid, especially when he’s dressed in Chiefs red, that he has a hard time convincing people that he’s not Reid. He just says, “I’m almost Andy.”Black said he got the original idea in 2018 when his wife signed them up for a costume party for Halloween.
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1 week ago |
chronicle-tribune.com | David Smale
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pablo Reyes stumbled, stopped and still scrambled home safely on a wild play in the eighth inning Thursday night, taking advantage of a throwing error by reliever Lucas Erceg to give the New York Yankees a 1-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals. New York completed a three-game sweep to finish 6-0 against the Royals this season after eliminating them 3-1 in their best-of-five playoff series last October.
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Why was Maikel Garcia bunting with first and second and no outs in a tie game in the eighth inning? Bad managerial decision.
