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Alexander Wolff is a writer forSports Illustrated and former owner of theVermont Frost Heaves of thePremier Basketball League (PBL).
Wolff has written several books about basketball, among themBig Game, Small World (ISBN 0-446-52601-0), a look at basketball around the world.
Wolff's most notable and notorious work was a cover article inSports Illustrated in the magazine's June 12, 1995 edition, titled "Why the University of Miami Should DropFootball." In it, Wolff wrote an open letter to thenUniversity of Miami presidentEdward T. Foote II, expressing his view that theHurricanes had become a "disease" that had ruined the school's image and needed to be at least temporarily shut down.
In 2011, Wolff wrote a follow-up letter in 2011 to then University of Miami presidentDonna Shalala following theNevin Shapirobooster controversy.[1]
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home, Wolff's memoir of his father and grandfatherKurt Wolff, and observations drawn from his year living inBerlin, was published in 2021.[2]
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