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Luke Epplin

Luke Epplin

Sportswriter

Sep 10, 2026

97:41
This is, like, unfiltered Darryl Dawkins in the mainstream newspaper.
97:43
newspaper.So to give some context to this, there used to be, uh, there used to be a, a Philadelphia weekly that decided that they wanted each of the major sports, hockey, basketball, baseball, football, they wanted a superstar to write a, a weekly column for, for them.
98:00
And they chose, like, you know, Mike Schmidt, and Bobby Clark, and all these other big names.
98:05
Julius Erving turned it down, and so they chose Darryl Dawkins.
98:09
And if you read the other columnists from, like, Mike Schmidt or something like that, they're very anodyne, like, 'We played the Cardinals today.
98:17
It was tough.
98:18
Boy, is, is Ozzie Smith amazing.' If you read Darryl Dawkins, he sat down with a ghostwriter named Fran Blindberry, and they would huddle together in the practice court, and Dawkins would just go off onto some science fiction, like, tangent about being from the planet named Love Tron, and having these sort of women by his side, and, like, ruling this universe, and coming down to Earth to, to play basketball.
99:39
I kind of get what you mean now that I've read the book and kind of refreshed my memory, but spell that out for people.

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