TWiB is away for a little while during spring break. Please enjoy this vintage non-birding post. I met Ralph Sampson when the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch assigned me to cover the minor-league Richmond Rhythm during the 1999-2000 season, the franchise’s lone full season in professional basketball. Jack Berninger, the legendary T-D Sports Editor, put me on the schedule to cover one of the Rhythm’s first International Basketball League games, and I was more than eager for the opportunity. A year earlier, I had been writing a sports column for my college newspaper, the
What I learned from Ralph Sampson
What I learned from Ralph Sampson
What I learned from Ralph Sampson
TWiB is away for a little while during spring break. Please enjoy this vintage non-birding post. I met Ralph Sampson when the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch assigned me to cover the minor-league Richmond Rhythm during the 1999-2000 season, the franchise’s lone full season in professional basketball. Jack Berninger, the legendary T-D Sports Editor, put me on the schedule to cover one of the Rhythm’s first International Basketball League games, and I was more than eager for the opportunity. A year earlier, I had been writing a sports column for my college newspaper, the