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Relive the magic of the greatest player to ever step on the court.“Air Jordan,” “His Airness,” “MJ.”Whatever you call him, Michael Jeffrey Jordan can be considered one of the greatest basketball players of all-time. During his career, Jordan won six NBA championships and was a 14-time All-Star, five-time NBA MVP, and six-time NBA Finals MVP. To say Jordan was dominant during his career would be a severe understatement.Now for the first time ever, hear stories from opponents, teammates, and coaches about what it was like to go against MJ in Facing Michael Jordan. You will hear stories from such All-Stars as:Charles BarkleyDennis RodmanRobert ParishTerry PorterAnd many more!From the moment Jordan stepped onto the court, he dominated the game of basketball.



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Sean Deveney

I live less than two miles from Wrigley Field, so I know a little something about the Chicago Cubs and their fanatic fans. I grew up in Lynn, Mass., so I also know a little something about the Boston Red Sox and their fanatic fans. When I heard that the 1918 World Series --- featuring the Red Sox and Cubs --- might have been fixed, it immediately registered that this could be a pretty interesting thing.Here's how it started: In February of 2008, I was at the Chicago History Museum waiting to do a television interview for CBS news. The producer, though, was late, and I began chatting with the museum's curator, Peter Alter, who had just been part of a large purchase of documents related to the 1919 Black Sox scandal. He showed me one of particular interest, in which pitcher Eddie Cicotte was quoted in a deposition saying this:"The way it started, we were going east on the train. The ball players were talking about somebody trying to fix the National League ball players or something like that in the World's Series of 1918. Well anyway there was some talk about them offering $10,000 or something to throw the Cubs in the Boston Series. There was talk that somebody offered this player $10,000 or anyway the bunch of players were offered $10,000. This was on the train going over. Somebody made a crack about getting money, if we got into the series."I began my research there, and discovered that 1918 was one of the most fascinating years in baseball (as well as in Chicago's, Boston's and America's) history. The U.S. was not a superpower yet, but was beginning to become one with its entry into World War I. On the homefront, the country was riddled with problems --- drafting an army, dealing with violence against German citizens, grappling with difficult questions on morality, facing staggering inflation, appeasing a bustling labor movement and combating domestic terrorism. Often, those problems in American society trickled onto the baseball field, changing teams wholesale and affecting the politics of the game. By the end of the season, which was cut short by the war, beat writers were pronouncing the death of baseball as it was then known. If there were ever a season in which a fixed World Series made sense, it was 1918. That's the core of The Original Curse, my first book. It's a lot of baseball, but it's also a lot of nitty-gritty U.S. history. As for me, I am still living in the shadow of Wrigley Field with my wife, Robbie, and my stepson, Brice Klein. I have been writing for Sporting News since 1999, covering the NBA for the magazine, the website and the digital version, Sporting News Today. I'm a proud graduate of Northwestern University and Lynn English High.



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