mattlawyue

Currently in Tanzania, Africa doing media relations for the School of St Jude in Arusha.

Spent some time in public relations in NYC, and have written for SLAM Magazine, ESPN NewYork, the Boston Herald and BusinessWeek.

The College of New Jersey, '10.

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Posts tagged "Gary Smith"
‘It’s been great,’ he says.
Gary Smith manages one graf - in the fourth to last graf no less - of Cliff Lee quotes in an eight-page feature of him and the Phillies. It’s uniquely Gary Smith, and shouldn’t be attempted by even the most seasoned (sports) journalists.

This is in the air the boy breathes for 20 years, and it becomes bone fact for him, marrow knowledge. When asked about it, he merely nods in acknowledgment of it, assents to it; of course he believes it’s true. So failure, in the rare visits it pays him, is not failure. It’s just life pausing to teach him a lesson he needs in order to go where he’s inevitably going. And success, no matter how much sooner than expected it comes to the door, always finds him dressed and ready to welcome it… ‘I don’t see any of this as scary or a burden,’ Tiger says. ‘I see it as fortunate. I’ve always known where I wanted to go in life. I’ve never let anything deter me. This is my purpose. It will unfold.’

No sports star in the history of American celebrity has spoken this way. Maybe, somehow, Tiger can win.

Written by the great Gary Smith of Sports Illustrated, for the SI cover, December 23, 1996. The title of the story? The Chosen One