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Tag Archives: jim yardley
Russell Wilson poised to pass John Brodie on all-time annals
Brodie 31,548 after 201 games, age 38, for the 49ers of my childhood, before Joe Reed, Steve Spurrier, Steve DeBerg, Joe Montana, Steve Young. Russell Wilson for Seattle Seahawks is about 320 short of that, for 45th all time, but … Continue reading
Porteus in the Times VS Yardley of The Times
Matt Porteus the scientist and Jim Yardley the journalist were classmates for one year, 1981, at Henry M. Gunn high school in Palo Alto, California. I don’t know how well they knew each other. Greg Zlotnick might be the only … Continue reading
Posted in chapel hill, filthy lucre, words
Tagged bob mcadoo, jim yardley, Ken Leung, matt porteus
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Je suis Jim Yardley
I doubt we ran Jim Yardley’s first byline above the fold page one of the Oracle, at Henry M. Gunn High of Palo Alto — something about middle class students using public transportation to school, spring 1981 — but his … Continue reading
Posted in ethniceities, media, Plato's Republic, words
Tagged charlie hebdo, gunn oracle, jim yardley, the new york times
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Future history of modern cities slash Palo Alto
http://www.amazon.com/History-Future-Cities-Daniel-Brook/dp/0393078124 If I run for Palo Alto City Council in fall, 2014 I will likely either read above or at least read Jonathan Yardley’s review of such, and drop the name of the book during any public fora about development … Continue reading
Posted in art, chapel hill, media, Plato's Republic
Tagged jim yardley, jonathan yardley, rosemary yardley, william yardley
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The New York Times has been charging me $15 per month since April yet I actually have not been on their site for about six months. I thought of calling the 800 number on my credit card bill to ask … Continue reading
Yardley’s ‘Brave Dragons’ hits the mark
CHINA CAGERS BOOK A ‘SWISH’ BUT NOT ‘SWISHY’ From Carolina Blue to ‘His ass is blue’ in reporter’s hoops odyssey http://www.amazon.com/Brave-Dragons-Basketball-American-Cultures/dp/0307473368/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363914129&sr=1-2&keywords=brave+dragons Jim Yardley’s “Brave Dragons” can be read two ways, at least; one, as a basketball book that takes place … Continue reading
Posted in chapel hill, ethniceities, media, sports, this blue marble, words
Tagged brave dragons, china, harvey araton, hung liu, jade villalon, jim yardley, john krasinski
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From VTA to Vatican for former Gunn High journalist
Jim Yardley reports in The New York Times today from Vatican City on the surprise choice of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis. In 1981 I edited his first byline, an article about Gunn High students who took what is now … Continue reading
Posted in chapel hill, media, sports, this blue marble, words
Tagged jim yardley, kent lockhart, new york times, pulitzer prize
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Song of the day: Kimchi Line by Bho Bhoman
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Posted in brain, chapel hill, ethniceities, la la, media, music, Plato's Republic, sex, sf moma, sports, this blue marble, words
Tagged Alana Kansaku-Sarmiento, bhi bhiman, bho bhoman, bho dhiman, jim yardley, star teachout
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Sweet smell of spilled coffee (from Iraq)
Pre-empting the other fifty things I was either going to do or write about potentially doing this fine spring morning, I am pitching my old pal Jim Yardley the Pulitzer laureate about writing something about Global Heritage Fund in Palo … Continue reading