Alex Ashlock

After hearing Alex Ashlock’s piece about a crushing 1970 ACC loss, the news director emeritus at WBFO in Buffalo wrote to say it wasn’t the only basketball disappointment that March.

Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock tells the story of coach Frank McGuire’s 1970 South Carolina team that featured John Roche and Bobby Cremins, and lost in the ACC tournament when Roche got hurt.

The football bowl bids come with requirements, like forcing the schools to buy thousands of ticketing that might never be used. Commentator John Bacon says that sounds like a bit of a scam to him.

The men’s marathon wraps up the Olympics on Sunday. Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock writes about the contenders, and how the late Kenyan runner Sammy Wanjiru’s 2008 record win is pushing athletes to new levels.

Runner’s World editor at large Amby Burfoot expects an “unbelievable” competition in this Sunday’s women’s marathon.

Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock looks back on the attacks at the Munich Olympics 40 years ago.

Rhett Miller of the Old 97s has a new solo record, funded by his fans, and featuring Roseanne Cash.

After Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968 a young, white priest named John Brooks led the effort to recruit black students to the almost totally white Jesuit school. Father Brooks passed away this week.

Alan Driscoll served as a an Air Force dog handler in Vietnam and he says the dogs that serve in wars deserve appreciation.

In his first novel in six years, Richard Ford touches on themes he has reflected on before: fate, family and the American experience.