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A letter to the Junior High Sports Guy

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Friday, November 30, 2007

If Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a software program that allowed us to send e-mails 25 years into the past, here's the first missive I would send to eighth-grader Billy Simmons right now: Dear Billy, Please put down the Intellivision controller and read this note. It's Nov. 30, 2007, and I'm contacting you from the future. Don't worry, this isn't going to be one of those corny self-letters like the one that Dane Cook wrote to himself during the final "Tourgasm" episode. (Oh, wait, you don ...

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