In his hall-of-fame career as a sportswriter Dave Kindred covered hundreds of major sporting events and championships and wrote a biography of Muhammad Ali Growing bored in retirement he started attending girls rsquo basketball games at a local school Soon he began writing stories about each game and posting them online And when Dave rsquo s mother and grandson died and his wife suffered a debilitating stroke he realized the team he rsquo d been covering provided him with a sense of community and purpose He needed them as much as they needed him Kindred said ldquo This team saved
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