Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York ...
Jim Carroll started writing what would become 'The Basketball Diaries' when he was just 12 years old. The son of Irish bartenders, Carroll grew up in upper Manhattan. He was a star high school athlete ...
A high school basketball player's dream of playing pro ball goes up in smoke because of a heroin addiction. Based on Jim ...