Amy Bass
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At the Boston Book Festival this past fall, where I had the joy of sitting in a large venue talking with Howard Bryant, Etan Thomas, and...
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Amy Bass
Nov 16, 20183 min read
The End and the Beginning
On Wednesday, my nephew's high school soccer career ended. I've written about Max and soccer before -- indeed, one of my most popular...
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Amy Bass
Nov 8, 20182 min read
It's a Blue Devils World...
...and we’re just living in it. The scope of the Lewiston High School Blue Devils never ceases to amaze me. Over the course of the last...
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Amy Bass
Oct 29, 20182 min read
They Won
Unlike me, my daughter only knows the Boston Red Sox to be a powerhouse. Just 11, she's always seen them as contenders, winners. Last...
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Amy Bass
Oct 16, 20183 min read
It was 50 Years Ago Today
That the traditional gift for a 50th anniversary is gold is fitting, because that is exactly what Tommie Smith got on October 16, 1968....
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Amy Bass
Sep 28, 20182 min read
Where Are They Now?
The question I get asked perhaps most of all: where are they now? Where are the players, the coaches, and the families of ONE GOAL? ...
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Amy Bass
Jul 3, 20182 min read
John Green
I first picked up a copy of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette? because my sister told me to. She picked it up because John Green...
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Amy Bass
Jun 18, 20182 min read
World Class Writers talking World Cup
With World Cup action going full throttle (I think MEXICO v. GERMANY took years off my life, not to mention ICELAND ICELAND ICELAND), I...
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Amy Bass
Jun 13, 20182 min read
36 Hours with ONE GOAL in Spartanburg
Putting together a book tour is a crazy thing. It's a combination of who you know, where your public relations folks want to send you,...
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Amy Bass
Jun 8, 20182 min read
Fields of Play
"When one walks through the gate of Don Roux field and buys a ticket the blue-and-white Snack Shack sits to the left just off the track. ...
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Amy Bass
May 11, 20182 min read
It's A Bates World...
I ducked into a local coffee shop this morning and greeted the usual suspects who sat at their various tables, starting their Fridays off...
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Amy Bass
Apr 30, 20182 min read
She Scored A Goal
Nuri was excited. He had loved soccer forever, kicking a ball around in the dirt in Saudi Arabia when he was little. Usually he scored...
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Amy Bass
Apr 1, 20183 min read
Three Takeaways from Life on the Road with ONE GOAL
1. Mother Nature Hates Soccer: Three storms, three weeks. The only thing I could do about it was laugh. Just a few days after the...
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Amy Bass
Mar 28, 20182 min read
Get Involved
Last weekend, before an event for my book ONE GOAL at the amazing Savoy Bookshop in Westerly, RI, I did an interview with a writer from...
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Amy Bass
Mar 19, 20182 min read
We Had Welcome
The very first person I reached out to when I first wrote about the Lewiston Blue Devils was Abdikadir Negeye. Co-founder of the Somali...
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Amy Bass
Mar 11, 20181 min read
Listen to Athletes
In between two nor'easters, I headed up to Ithaca this past week to give the Seymour Lecture at Cornell University. The lecture happened...
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Amy Bass
Feb 27, 20181 min read
It's Time
ONE GOAL launches in just a few hours, February 27, 2018. The fall of 2015, when I embarked on the writing of this book, seems so far...
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Amy Bass
Feb 24, 20181 min read
Sports Illustrated
It was thrilling to see an excerpt from ONE GOAL in Sports Illustrated. With only a few more days until publication, offering a snapshot...
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Amy Bass
Feb 21, 20182 min read
Losing Gold, Winning Bronze
In 2014 at the Sochi Olympic Winter Games, Hannah Kearney's face said everything. A bronze medal wasn't good enough for the virtuoso...
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