The Moment a DI Basketball Coach Stumbled Out of a Crackhouse

The Moment A DI Basketball Coach Stumbled Out Of A Crackhouse
Then Gercar hands Mackey a plastic cup, asks him to take a leak, and there it is, all of it, pissed away: the cocaine; the $ 350,000 contract, complete with new car, radio and TV shows, membership in the University Club, and 500 season tickets for inner …
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At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
When Lewis snorted his first line at age 18, he'd already used almost every imaginable drug: Marijuana. Cocaine. LSD. Ecstasy. Mushrooms. Pills. Heroin, though, was much more seductive. "It was just like someone had wrapped me in a blanket," he recalls …
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Jonathan Richman v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
This is where I'll put in my disclaimer, which should also explain my rambling and reminiscing: Jonathan and I have been friends since we were five years old in Natick, a suburb of Boston, where I first heard him sing. He was dressed in a baseball …
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