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Monday, June 6, 2011

Review 48: The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever (John Feinstein)

The best sports book I have ever read from the best sports writer I have ever read. This is the chilling account of how one act of violence can alter the trajectory of many, many lives, mostly for ill -- though the ending of this saga conveys hope; see the line, "We are brothers."

One is moved to consider the consequences of Kermit Washington's 'punch.' You do reap what you sow, and that is nowhere better illustrated than in Washington's life after the 'punch.'

Saddest of all is the fact that it appears Washington never came right out and said he was sorry. He never confessed his sin fully, openly. That may be the harshest sowing of all, with the worst reaping.

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