{"id":25061,"date":"2022-08-16T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25061"},"modified":"2022-08-16T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:54:37","slug":"obit-watch-august-16-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25061","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: August 16, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Evans, author. (The Horse Whisperer<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it \u201ca sappy romance novel, gussied up with some sentimental claptrap about the emotional life of animals and lots of Walleresque hooey about men and women.\u201d<\/a>
\n\u201cAbout the only thing missing,\u201d she added, \u201cis a picture of Fabio on the cover.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In spite of that, it was a huge hit, as you know, Bob. Also, I have to give mad props to the guy for being a survivor: he had melanoma while writing the book. And then, in 2008…<\/p>\n

He and his second wife, Charlotte Gordon Cumming, a singer-songwriter, were staying with her brother, Alastair Gordon Cumming, and his wife, Lady Louisa, in the Scottish Highlands. They had picked and enjoyed a meal of wild mushrooms, which turned out to be poisonous. All four became sick, and their kidneys soon failed. Mr. Evans, Ms. Gordon Cumming and her brother required years of dialysis \u2014 and new kidneys. Mr. Evans\u2019s daughter Lauren donated one of hers. Ms. Gordon Cumming was offered the kidney of her son\u2019s best friend\u2019s mother, and Mr. Cumming\u2019s came from a patient who had died. Mr. Evans became a patron of a kidney donation charity. Ms. Gordon Cumming made a documentary film about her experience.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

His reviews grew more positive with every book. Nonetheless, he tended to avoid reading them.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pete Carril<\/a>, basketball coach at Princeton. He never won a championship, but his teams played well.<\/p>\n

His record at Princeton was 514-261, with 13 Ivy titles, 11 appearances in the National Collegiate Athletic Association\u2019s championship tournament, two in the National Invitation Tournament (his team won in 1975) and only one losing season. Fourteen of his Princeton teams led the nation in defense. In 1997, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.<\/a>
\nHe emphasized a deliberate off-the-ball offense that kept players passing the ball and setting screens until a shooter was open or someone broke free to the basket in a patented backdoor play. The scores were low, and no matter how much opponents prepared, they were frustrated and often lost their poise.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

Every year at his first practice session, Carril made the same speech to his players.<\/a>
\n\u201cI know about your academic load,\u201d he said. \u201cI know how tough it is to give up the time to play here, but let\u2019s get one thing straight. In my book, there is no such thing as an Ivy League player. When you come out of that locker room and step across that white line, you are basketball players, period.\u201d<\/a>
\nBut he also told his players:<\/a>
\n\u201cPrinceton is a special place with some very special professors. It is something special to be taught by one of them. But you are not special just because you happen to go here.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Evans, author. (The Horse Whisperer) Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it \u201ca sappy romance novel, gussied up with some sentimental claptrap about the emotional life of animals and lots of Walleresque hooey about men and women.\u201d \u201cAbout the only thing missing,\u201d she added, \u201cis a picture of Fabio on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-obits","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25064,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061\/revisions\/25064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}