Gannon Hanevold
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Published in Cronkite News/Arizona PBS on Dec. 23, 2022 On a blistering Saturday afternoon at Oakland Coliseum, Harvey Shank, a lanky 23-year-old right-hander, stepped on the mound for the California Angels for the first time. It was May 16, 1970, two days before the U.S. release of The Beatles’ final album “Let it Be,” and
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Published in Cronkite News/Arizona PBS on Oct. 5, 2022 Hours before the final game of the 2017 season, Phoenix College football coach Robin Pflugrad made lunch for his team. The Bears were preparing to host the 8-1 Snow College Badgers, the second best team in the conference. For lunch, they ate Uncrustables. Pflugrad and his
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Published in Cronkite News/Arizona PBS on Dec. 12, 2022 Julian Davis sits with his harmonica in front of him. Beyond that, there’s commotion. Ten yards on one side of Davis, a 12-foot fluorescent pink robot, advertising a new sports betting app, gives away tickets to a Jake Paul-Anderson Silva fight. Thirty yards in the other
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Apr. 22, 2024 On a Friday night outside Rozz-Tox, the sun is setting. The remaining light has crept inside the Rock Island café’s barred windows, illuminating a sparse scene in the main room. Roaring Rhetoric, the recurring open mic poetry events at Rozz-Tox and Rock Island’s Skylight Luxury Lounge,
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Sep. 16, 2024 At one point during the Alternating Currents music festival, Matt Ressler and Bambi Suits chatted at the Raccoon Motel bar. It was noisy, as Hembree, one of the weekend’s biggest acts, prepared to take the stage one room over. Hundreds of fans talked and ordered drinks
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