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Ion Tiriac, Tennis Billionaire

"Ion Tiriac," 2015 Stamp from Romania

Some called him Count Dracula out of Gothic lore. Others called him the Brasov Bulldozer. A dual sport athlete at the highest levels: Ice Hockey Olympian and top 10 tennis player. A businessman as cunning as the Medici. He bet big on Boris Becker when he was just 15 and made him into a global […]

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I Compare my Father to Ilie Nastase

Miki Goodaboom, "Ilie Nastase."

Father was positive and paranoid and pissed that the bomb would destroy the world, so he sold calendars of flowers and buttons of peace: Make Love, Not War. That meant, in part, that he loved many women. It was said he could charm the socks off a corpse. He wrote the mother of his children […]