Entries by AlanPaul

Very Nice

From Brian Ross’ ABC News blog China Admits Selling Prisoners’ Organs November 21, 2006 10:22 AM Anna Schecter Reports: For the first time, the Chinese government has admitted selling the organs of executed prisoners for profit, a gruesome business it had denied for years. Speaking at a national conference of transplant surgeons in Guangzhou last […]

U-M/OSU

Well, best I can tell the game is not on here. ESPN INtl will no doubt sowing beach volleyball or swimming or something. They don’t seem to have an NCAA deal. I will get up around 5 am (4 pm EST) and log onto ESPN.com and start hitting refresh. Phone is right by my computer […]

RIP Bo Schembechler, 1929-2006

I interviewed Bo Schembechler 10 years ago for Blitz, Slam’s football publication ,which was really good while it lasted. A few things to note: I did not like Bo’s politics and his handling of the Tigers was a disgrace. But he was Michigan football and as far as I could ever tell was a man […]

Ga Ya Ju Ancient Caves

Last Tuesday was the last of a five-day long weekend and a caravan of us headed about two hours Northeast of Beijing to the Gu Ya Ju Anicent Caves. We had 5 adults + 9 kids, including Jacob’s boy Lucas P, who was with me. These pictures will give you a sense of what the […]

A Tale of Two Teams

. Soccer has been a big part of our social life since we arrived here. Within a few weeks, we had trekked down to the Lido Holiday Inn and signed up for fall soccer with Sports Beijing. Out there, we met a bunch of new friends, Jacob finding his boys and his identity and we […]

From the Vaults — Albert King

I just came across this old story, one of the highlights of my years at Guitar World. I wrote the intro a few years ago when the piece was rerun in a fanzine. Just days after I became the Guitar World Managing Editor in February, 1991, I sat at my desk listening two of my […]

New skateboard, bike

Becky’s coming home today in just a few hours and we’re all excited to see her. It’s been fine though. Kids have been good. Yesterday got a little tired for all of us after a very long day. We ended up at Decathalon, a new huge French sporting good store. They have been in Shanghai […]