The Crane Pool Forum

A thread for long-form feature-type journalism articles you've read, found engaging, and would like to share.

The $1 million shot that changed sports contests forever



This ESPN article revisits the story of the guy who became an overnight sensation thirty years ago, winning a (supposedly) million-dollar payday by chucking a shot from the opposite free throw line into the hoop, a promotion at halftime of a Bulls game, back when the sports-world seemingly revolved around Bulls games.

I like that, from that illustration, you kind of know from the numbers and hairstyles and facial hair which Bulls figures the artist is trying to draw, but none of them really look anything like who they are supposed to.

You May Know Me from Such Roles as Terrorist #4



This article — a profile of Arab-American actors torn between constantly being asked to play terrorists or not working at all while watching some other dark-skinned guy do it — is from eight years ago, but I found it when I spotted a stage actor I used to know back in the nineties blowing shit up in a crappy action movie I stumbled over.

The man who walked around the world: Tom Turcich on his seven-year search for the meaning of life



A sheltered New Jersey teenager loses his friend, gets lost in teen angst, and vows he will walk the world in search of answers. His family treats it as a stupid teen idea, but starting ten years later, he incredibly does just that.

I stumbled across the story about the kid who walked around the world. I envy him for his experiences.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:10 pm
This ESPN article revisits the story of the guy who became an overnight sensation thirty years ago, winning a (supposedly) million-dollar payday by chucking a shot from the opposite free throw line into the hoop, a promotion at halftime of a Bulls game, back when the sports-world seemingly revolved around Bulls games.

that is a great story - I love the part about his son fucking up his grades in college and turning things around by being motivated not just to get his own grades up but to tudor others

The Don Calhoun article was great , and a really great ending, thanks for sharing

I'm pulling out this article as I was at the show in Tipperary, I was 16 going on 17, and what a night it was, we snuck in flagons of cider and had a whale of a night

Meatloaf tours rural Ireland

https://www.loudersound.com/features/me ... -ever-told

metirish wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:29 am I'm pulling out this article as I was at the show in Tipperary, I was 16 going on 17, and what a night it was, we snuck in flagons of cider and had a whale of a night

Meatloaf tours rural Ireland

https://www.loudersound.com/features/me ... -ever-told

Great read. You know it's a rowdy crowd when a wheelchair is thrown on stage

I had read that back at the time it was published. "I would do anything for love, but I won't continue performing while drunken, rustic eejits keep throwing shit at me."

Fman99 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:24 am You know it's a rowdy crowd when a wheelchair is thrown on stage

Full or empty?

Lololol

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:56 pm

Fman99 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:24 am You know it's a rowdy crowd when a wheelchair is thrown on stage

Full or empty?

They must have learned from Richard Widmark:


Later

Excellent article here on MTV News , Kurt Loder etc

https://www-hollywoodreporter-com.cdn.a ... 5484146%2F

I think parent company should have kept MTV News and canceled MTV rather than the other way around.
But that's just me.

metirish wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 6:44 pm Excellent article here on MTV News , Kurt Loder etc

https://www-hollywoodreporter-com.cdn.a ... 5484146%2F

If that was a whole book, I would eat it up.

High school-educated auto mechanic from Martinez, CA — the rusted-out refinery town that gave the world Tug McGraw — pulls off billion-dollar solar-energy-industry Ponzi-scheme fraud, suckering Fortune 500 companies who were underwriting their investments with US tax credits.

It's a bout a 35-minute read, from the May Atlantic Monthly.

Carpoff was a paunchy man with blue eyes and apple cheeks—a “big chipmunk,” as a colleague called him—who gulped rather than spit his chewing tobacco and spent Sundays watching NASCAR.

The takeaway — and we should get this by now — is that designing the tax code to forward policy initiatives almost always fails to advance the broader national interests they are aiming at, and instead privileges companies with accesss the fancy-pants law and accounting firms that can exploit these tax credits.

My lawnmower needs servicing, bringing it in on Sat morning.
Borrowed a neighbors; did ours, theirs and an elderly neighbors.
That's my story I got for youse for today...

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 2:33 pm The takeaway — and we should get this by now — is that designing the tax code to forward policy initiatives almost always fails to advance the broader national interests they are aiming at, and instead privileges companies with accesss the fancy-pants law and accounting firms that can exploit these tax credits.

I found it to be a compelling read. I think my post-Madoff legacy as a Mets fan is an endless fascination with anyone who makes money in a Ponzi scheme.

It was indeed fascinating, love this thread

Another journalistic undercover deep dive into a convention of whack job rightists, this time under the guise of "Moms 4 Liberty."

The Grand Prize winner of this year's Audubon Photography Awards took home the big cup by photographing a pair of common rock pigeons.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:37 pm The Grand Prize winner of this year's Audubon Photography Awards took home the big cup by photographing a pair of common rock pigeons.

A plethora beautiful photos on that site. Thanks for sharing.

Hey, it's Brent Strom!

Nimmo swung at some real sludge on 3–1.