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Scott Raab's big-hearted companion to his darkly comic "sports-jeremiad-slash-memoir" The Whore of Akron follows the first two years of LeBron James's return to Cleveland, where everybody just loves a good story of forgiveness - especially when you fulfill your promise and bring home an NBA Championship, the first major title for a Cleveland team since 1964."If I had a chance to return to Cleveland, and those fans welcomed me back, that'd be a great story." - LeBron James in 2010, days after "The Decision"In 2010, when LeBron James announced to the world that he was leaving for Miami, he broke the collective heart of his native city and destroyed the hopes of an entire tortured generation. As LeBron headed south, unofficial spokesman Scott Raab sent him off with a middle-finger salute of his own - a deliciously obscene aria of sports fandom, Jewishness, and weight gain that became infamous as The Whore of Akron.
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Scott Raab, a Writer-at-Large for Esquire since 1997, is a graduate of Cleveland State University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has been widely anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing, among others. Born and bred in Cleveland, he now lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
