A West Virginia native, Michael D. McClellan's celebrity interviews appear on his web site, FifteenMinutesWith.Com, and include superstars Pharrell Williams and Vince Gill; Nobel Prize winners Art McDonald and Takaaki Kajita; Grammy winners Al Jarreau, Melissa Manchester, Keb Mo, and Big Daddy Kane; racing legend Mario Andretti; NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly; and NBA legends Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Julius Erving, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Latest posts by Michael McClellan (see all)
- Mario Andretti – Full Throttle - February 4, 2024
- Tim Russ – Star Trek: Voyager - July 25, 2021
- Maeve Press – Everything’s Gonna Be Okay - May 23, 2021
Clyde Drexler – Glide Time
By: Michael D. McClellan | What is it about nicknames that endear us to our sports heroes so? This isn’t a relatively new phenomena, unlike the tattoo craze that, in recent years, has inked both athletes and fans alike. Nor are nicknames specific to race, culture, creed, or even the sports that we follow with such crazed […]
Q&A: Travis Freeman, Real-Life Inspiration Behind the Movie ’23 Blast’
By: Michael D. McClellan | Imagine: You’re twelve years old, and you wake up one morning and you’re completely blind. Now, imagine finding the courage to rise up and continue following your dream to play high school football. If it sounds like the stuff of movies you’re on the right track; 23 Blast opens on 600 […]
Desmond Mason – Paint Baller
Leonardo da Vinci once said that art is never finished, that is only abandoned. Desmond Mason, burgeoning artist with an emphasis on abstract expressionism, he of the 10-year NBA career punctuated with the bold brushstroke that is victory in the 2001 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, quickly concurs with the genius painter behind the world’s most […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – Top Gun
By: Michael D. McClellan | 38,387…. It’s a number that stands alone, one that towers, unyielding, above all others in NBA history. It represents twenty years of sustained excellence, 1,560 nights of competing against the world’s best, 57,446 minutes worth of memories, mysteries and milestones. Four other players have crossed the 30,000 career scoring threshold to […]
Julie Sarkissian – Spellbound
By: Michael D. McClellan | There is something so refreshingly different about both Julie Sarkissian and her 2013 debut novel, Dear Lucy, that it’s easy to lose yourself in the world of the title character from the very first sentence. The awkwardness of the grammar immediately sweeps you up, beautifully conveying the voice of this tender, innocent, […]
Julius Erving – House Call
By: Michael D. McClellan | I stand at half court, dribbling the basketball, my heart pounding hard in my chest, one of the greatest players in NBA history standing his ground between me and the rim. He’s wearing blue warm-up pants and a white Converse T-shirt, his iconic Afro long since downsized to keep pace with his […]