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Chapter 1
I slipped in through the back door and hung up my coat, jamming the medallion into my pants pocket as I opened the refrigerator,...

Jim Knoedel
Aug 25, 20246 min read


Triumph & Tragedy
Over the next weeks and months I'm releasing an unpublished novel, chapter by chapter, evoking the era when books were first published in...

Jim Knoedel
Aug 18, 20242 min read


Why You Should Care
The structure of NCAA college sports is teetering like a rotten tree, the roots which held it steady for so many years, unable to provide...

Jim Knoedel
Jun 2, 20243 min read


It's Hard to Sit Upstairs.
I was a college coach for 35 years and a high school coach for four, stepping away from coaching seven years ago. Hard to believe it's...

Jim Knoedel
May 6, 20243 min read


The Genius of Ted Haydon
Its been quite a while since I've written, my energies taken up with my latest endeavor. Creating a book, like training for a marathon,...

Jim Knoedel
Apr 14, 20243 min read


With...or Against the Wind?
Like Isaac Newton's 3rd Law of Gravity - with every adage there's one which is an opposite axiom. One that counters the other. For...

Jim Knoedel
Jan 7, 20242 min read
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