MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame unveiled on Saturday its finalists for the 2018 Hall of Fame class, with first-time nominees Ray Allen, Jason Kidd and Steve Nash leading the group.
But one person headed for the September ceremony in Springfield, Mass., stands out: Doris Burke, the recipient of the Hall’s Curt Gowdy award for electronic media. It’s a well-deserved honor for a trailblazer and role model who this season became the first woman to hold the job of full-time NBA color analyst.
Another trailblazer, fittingly honored. What a class act Doris Burke is. I have such respect and admiration for her, rising in such a male-dominated world of pro basketball, offering excellent analysis and commentary and doing it while radiating such grace and warmth. I can only imagine the kind of crap she's had to put up with along the way, probably most if not all of which the rest of us will never know about.