About AlanPaul
Alan Paul is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band and the acclaimed memoir Big in China. He is also a singer and guitarist who fronts the Big in China band and Friends of the Brothers, the premier tribute to the Allman Brothers Band.
Entries by AlanPaul
Some love for Becky
Not from me. My love for her is no secret. She got some nice praise from James Fallows. Well deserved, too. This is a great story.
Still going strong
Greece/US grudge match hoops game. But yesterday I was running around to the offbeat events. I did this piece on a shooting competitor who is an 18-year-old from Manhattan,headed to Princeton next month. Yesterday, it was also time to check out a little badminton. Becky scooped me on this one. I’m working on a similar […]
Still going strong
Greece/US grudge match hoops game. But yesterday I was running around to the offbeat events. I did this piece on a shooting competitor who is an 18-year-old from Manhattan,headed to Princeton next month. Yesterday, it was also time to check out a little badminton. Becky scooped me on this one. I’m working on a similar […]
Weightlifting, hoops and more
So, we had a pretty funny day yesterday. Becky and I spent all afternoon watching weightlifting together — and we enjoyed it. The woman Becky wrote about last week was competing and boy did she deliver.What are the odds of us hanging out together watching women weightlifters? Here’s my story. And here’s Becky’s. Later in […]
More reporting
Just a note: the blog index page a lot of you have does not include all of my writing. Now that I am covering lots of actual events, a lot of my stuff will not appear there. They don’t consider that stuff to be part of my blog. Yesterday, I covered two really cool events […]
Live blogging Women’s Diving
My view2:18 pm I thought I would try something different here and do a little live blogging. I need to take notes anyhow. I am at first Diving competition of the Games, Women’s 3M synchro springboard. I have a prime spot in the press “tribune” First row of many rows of press seating, directly up […]
Party time
We went to a huge and really fun party at the Commune by the Great Wall last (Saturday) night. Just what we needed in the midst of working 12 hour days.. party an hour and half away in the mountains until 2 a.m. But aside from assorted celebrities (Quincy Jones, Hong Kong film star Maggie […]
Holy moly
So the first day i sdone. I crisscrossed Beijing. Made it home at about 1:30 am, having sweated through two shirts and everything else. My calves are aching like I ran a marathon and I am totally exhilerated, too pumped up to even think about going to sleep. Becky was in the first row of […]
Early Olympics pics
I’m on a roll and gonna keep moving with posting photos. Some of these should have been on my NBC blog, but didn’t make it for one dumb reason or another.Kathy, David and Jesse drove us in to the Greensbefore heading off to the Summer Palace.Jesse!We are working in buildings next door to each other.She’s […]