Music and sports are the two legs that true happiness walks on. In many ways, the classic version of each is best. Sinatra sings a song, “Last Night When We Were Young” about the passage of time and how it can at once feel like ages ago or just last night. Sports can be like that.
The Flight Of “The Hawk”
By the time I first heard about The Hawk a lot of people were saying he was past his prime. But I didn’t know that. All I knew was that the voice coming out of the radio was talking about this player with high-pitched amazement, and The Hawk was about to bump my Lakers from the playoffs.