Alexander Wolff is a writer for ''

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'' and former owner of the

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of the

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(PBL). He has written several books about basketball, among them ''Big Game, Small World'' (), a look at basketball around the world. His most notable and notorious work was a feature article in ''Sports Illustrated'' from June 12, 1995, entitled "Why the

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Should Drop Football." In it, Wolff wrote an open letter to then University of Miami president

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claiming that the Hurricanes were a "disease" that had ruined the school's image and needed to be at least temporarily shut down. Wolff wrote a follow up letter in 2011 to the then-current UM president, Donna Shalala, following the

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booster controversy. ''Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home'', Wolff's memoir of his father and grandfather, and observations drawn from his year living in Berlin, appeared in 2021.

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