If you had a childhood sports hero …

Opinion

May 21, 20081 min

This story is about one man’s childhood hero and the all-too-close experience of learning what drug addiction had done to him. There’s no technology involved; just one that I couldn’t stop reading.

Data Center

by Paul McNamara

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In addition to my editing duties, I have written Buzzblog since January, 2006 and wrote the 'Net Buzz column in Network World's dearly departed print edition for 13 years. Feel free to e-mail me at pmcnamara@nww.com.

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