<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hopefully there’ll be another show in your future, Bruce. Your talents are very well known and respected:)<div><br><div>Happy New Year from Brooklyn,</div><div>Gary Morgenstein<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 2, 2025, at 10:46 AM, Obdriveway via Sport_literature_association <sport_literature_association@lists.ku.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp4f36ad3ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Dear Friends</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">On behalf of Rich Kimball and the rest of the Downtown crew, I'd like to thank all of the SLA members who appeared on the show--either for my Sports Lit 101 segment--or another segment. The success of the show as by design the guests.We never sought to be talking heads spewing hot takes. So thank you all.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Also, every interview is archived and as we will remerge in some form there is no need to worry about the audio of your appearances disappearing. All 3302 shows are fully archived.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Yesterday's "Last Rites for Downtown on WZON" show was affected by a server crash. (Windows decided to do an update at about 4:20 and that crashed us for more than 40 minutes.)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"> For those who'd like to hear that final show--and man we had fun--I will be sending a link to the entire show in a few days thanks to the work of our producer Carey Haskell who was sprinting between the on air studio and the control room while we carried on. So glad he will still be with the company--The FM Rock Signal WKIT--was sold a a bargain by the Kings to two local businessmen--one a former HS student of mine--so that station will stay on the air. Carey usually works remotely from New Orleans but drove up for the last few days.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">If anyone has questions or trouble navigating the archives feel free to reach out to me.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Below is a brief excerpt from a note from friend of the show, Ed Spencer who helped us with airport and bus pickups and drop offs last June that sums up the SLA/Downtown Synergy.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">Thanks again so much for the invite to the Sports Literature banquet. I got to ask Bob Ryan about Bill Bradley after Hank stole my question about Bill Walton. Walton was my left coast brother; we both played on NCAA champions in 1972. I have a copy of his Back from the Dead if you have not had the pleasure.</span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><font size="4" style="background-color: inherit;"> Who was the author reciting the poem that juxtaposed the Mantle/Maris home run race with the Kennedy assassination and ended with something like "....the dying gasps of the Confederacy."? He had us just about in tears, thru the radio. And a dream session for us Religious Studies majors would include our fellow academics Steve Martin and Phil Jackson. </font></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Ed.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Best wishes for 2025 to all</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;">Bruce</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Sport_literature_association mailing list</span><br><span>Sport_literature_association@lists.ku.edu</span><br><span>https://lists.ku.edu/listinfo/sport_literature_association</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>