Remembering Sid Gillman, innovative football coach, Jan. 3, 2003

By Elli Wohlgelernter
Innovative football coach Sid Gillman, who died Jan. 3, 2003, was not only a leading authority on passing theories and tactics, thus revolutionizing the game with his downfield-passing schemes; but his original use of analyzing film footage to prepare for football games fundamentally altered the way all future coaches would get ready [...]

Remembering my father, Michael H. Abbey, 27 years later

By Alan D. Abbey
It was simply an unlucky twist of fate that my father and John Lennon died on the same day in 1980. There was no common thread in their lives; in fact, my father disliked most rock and roll music.
While he never kept me from buying or listening to the Beatles, his music [...]

Remembering Norman Mailer: ‘Who’s da broad?’, ‘No more BS’

Jerusalem-based journalist Elli Wohlgelernter, Sports and Pop Music Editor of the new Encyclopaedia Judaica (among many other things), who we expect will become a regular contributor to In My Heart, writes (courtesy of TabloidBaby):
“I only met Norman Mailer once, at the Ali-Norton fight at Yankee Stadium, September 28, 1976. It was a controversial fight then, [...]