Articles Written By Sam Stephenson
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Late Night Sports Radio
Better in the Dark
Even as a kid I noticed that the radio announcers—Jack Buck and former coach Hank Stram—were several leagues superior to their counterparts on TV. Buck and...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Homage to Terrence Malick, Part Two
This morning I went to the Old Town Country Kitchen in Bath to get something to eat. Bath has a population of 268. It was the first incorporated town in North...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Whose Fantasy Is This, Anyway?
That’s not my experience. In my home region of Raleigh-Durham, college basketball and college football are the main topics of discussion and in my transistor-delivered sports talk home...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Los Tiempos Van Cambiando
The two obsessions merged in my head around midnight, on day 162 of the baseball season. I actually wasn’t in bed, but sitting at my desk listening to Steve...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Everyone Gets a Go
Rob in Bayside: “I have a friend who moved to North Carolina and every day he texts me or emails me saying, ‘Why can’t Teixeira hit...
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Late Night Sports Radio
The 5 a.m. Pugilist
Smith rolled his tapes often in the hours before daylight. There wasn’t sports radio back then—it wasn’t invented until WFAN launched in 1987—but...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Before Sunrise, Nobody Cares About Tennis
Health care for the elderly, automobiles, insurance, and frozen hamburgers—that just about covers it. Rubinson returned to the air. She was excited about the NFL preseason games and...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Into the Heart of Things
Though I grew up in a town of 9,000 on North Carolina’s coast, I’ve felt at home in New York since I was a teenager in the 198...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Homage to Terrence Malick
It takes a dirt road to make it to our house. We’re 15 miles downriver from where I grew up. Today the population of the surrounding Hyde County is...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Everyone’s Relative
The UNC Tar Heels have fired football coach Butch Davis and the airwaves are lit up. 11:57 p.m. I’m sitting in my home office listening to WFAN...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Voices in the Country
I’m in rural Chatham County, NC, with three acres, heavy woods with eight kinds of trees, and a creek. Crickets, cicadas, and tree frogs are chiming—the...
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Late Night Sports Radio
The Best Viola Player in the New York Phil Is a Bum
It’s 3:43 a.m. and I’m listening to the overnight call-in program on WFAN sports radio out of New York, 660 on the AM dial. The station&rsquo...