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Michael Loynd

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Michael Loynd is the author of ALL THINGS IRISH: A NOVEL, and the upcoming true story, THE WATERMEN, for Ballantine Random House. Married to his high school sweetheart, they live in St. Louis with their four children.

Rick Reilly

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I'm a recovering sportswriter -- two meetings a day -- who now writes books and movies and tries not to shoot his weight in golf.I cranked out the back-page column for Sports Illustrated for more than 20 years and then did TV features and columns and swept up for ESPN for eight years.I'm not a particularly smart man. Once, in Malaysia, I was about to pop the little hotel bedside chocolate into my mouth when my wife hollered, "That's the bug incense, you idiot!" Once, I was kayaking by myself when it began to rain. I paused, cursing my luck. Then the rain stopped. I started paddling again. Rain...