Email Author Tom Fitzpatrick

1993 Stories by Tom Fitzpatrick

• BILL DENNEY TRIES TO FIGURE OUT THE SCORE

  published March 10, 1993

  It was none other than Bill Denney, the television sportscaster. With a great deal of nonchalance, Denney sauntered up the center aisle of Judge... More >>

• EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY

  published March 3, 1993

  Max Dunlap's chair was squeaking. He signaled to the courtroom bailiff, who immediately came over and squirted WD-40 into the wheels. Then... More >>

• FLACK ATTACK

  published February 24, 1993

  The shameless selling and shilling of Shaquille O'Neal by the NBA is the clearest indication of panic I have yet seen by the men who run... More >>

• COVER CHARGES

  published February 24, 1993

  I'm having breakfast in the cafeteria on the main floor of the Maricopa County Courthouse. Since I'm going to the Suns game that night, I'm... More >>

• CAN'T ANYBODY HERE PLAY DEFENSE?

  published February 17, 1993

  Chuck Daly, who won two NBA titles with the Detroit Pistons, once said he always felt he had a three-day contract written in ice. On the other... More >>

• BOTTOMS UP

  published February 17, 1993

  Before the trial is over, defense attorney Murray Miller must convince the jury that the guilty man is not Max Dunlap but a sinister,... More >>

• THE BOLLES TRIAL GOES INTO RERUNS

  published February 10, 1993

  A man called and asked if I wanted an exclusive interview with Max Dunlap. The conditions were unusual. I would meet with Dunlap, but I was not to... More >>

• MURDER MYSTERY

  published February 3, 1993

  The biggest challenge the prosecution faces in pursuing the Don Bolles murder case is that time may have finally drained all passion from what was... More >>

• DON'T BLINK

  published February 3, 1993

  Basketball is the most difficult of the traditional American sports to write about. The ball moves too fast to describe. There are not just a... More >>

• WAY TO GO, FIFE

  published February 3, 1993

  I have to hand it to him. All these years, I thought Fife Symington was just another low-level hustler with an Ivy League veneer. I never figured... More >>

• IN DEFENSE OF TABLE-HOPPING

  published January 27, 1993

  By now everyone in town has seen the television footage of Charles Barkley climbing over the scorer's table in New York's Madison Square... More >>

• TUNING IN TO LIFE

  published January 27, 1993

  Each afternoon, just before the sun went down, Eva Byington, our neighbor, came out to water her lawn and flower beds. She had lived at the corner... More >>

• THIS AND THAT

  published January 20, 1993

  1. There's a clear signal President Bill Clinton might give during his inaugural address. It would diminish the fears of those who voted for him,... More >>

• DEALING WITH A CONFESSED SERIAL KILLER

  published January 13, 1993

  As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. --Tim O'Brien, The Things They... More >>

• HEY, KJ, LEARN TO SHARE

  published January 6, 1993

  I usually don't look upon anything Charles Barkley says as being especially prophetic. I should have listened to him the other night,... More >>