Zak Keefer
National Features Writer at The Athletic
Senior writer @TheAthletic, adjunct professor @IUMediaSchool.
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1 day ago |
nytimes.com | Zak Keefer
INDIANAPOLIS - The scene spoke to this team's hard luck history, all the way back to the night it nearly died. The Indiana Pacers were on the verge of collapse in July 1977, broke and bereft of hope, desperate enough to host a 16-hour telethon on local TV in hopes of selling a preposterous number of tickets - 8,000 of them - just to climb out of debt and live to see another season.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Zak Keefer
He remembers the sweat trickling down his forehead, feeling the weight of his ambitions and the future he'd mapped out. Pablo Torre could see it: a spot in an esteemed law school, a summer clerkship for a Supreme Court justice, a corner office for a corporate law firm in midtown Manhattan. It wasn't the path his parents had pushed for - both were doctors and badly wanted him to attend medical school - but it would certainly suffice.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Zak Keefer
When my phone buzzed late at night and "No Caller ID" flashed across the screen, I knew. I knew who was calling. I knew I needed to get my notebook ready. Most of all, I knew I wasn't going back to sleep for several hours. Those calls with Jim Irsay, the longtime Indianapolis Colts owner who died Wednesday at 65, were ... an adventure. It came with the territory. I was a Colts beat writer for 10 years. The Irsay Experience was part of the gig. Sometimes they'd last for hours.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Zak Keefer
Jim Irsay, the eccentric, outspoken, sometimes controversial and largely successful owner of the Indianapolis Colts, who away from the field battled personal demons for decades and later became a fierce champion of addiction awareness and mental health advocacy, died Wednesday. He was 65.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Zak Keefer
Ninety seconds or so after they'd sent the Eastern Conference's top seed home for the summer, the two lynchpins of the Indiana Pacers' recent resurgence met for a private moment on the court in Cleveland. Pascal Siakam needed to remind Tyrese Haliburton of something. "Remember, we're not done."The Pacers had dispatched the Cavaliers in five, winning three Eastern Conference semifinals games on the road, including a Game 5 in which they'd trailed by as many as 19.
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Greatest moment of my childhood.
30 years ago today, Reggie Miller did the unthinkable and scored 8 points in 8.9 seconds to lead us to a 107-105 win over the Knicks in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals ⚡️ https://t.co/DeU10UQ8L0