Mohammed Amin moved to Chicago at age 40, fell in the love with the Cubs, and raised four sons including the thoroughly American Adam, who learned on his way to ESPN, “It’s not about feminine or masculine. It’s just, it’s sports.”
Adam Amin of ESPN By Chuck Culpepper Chuck Culpepper Reporter who covers national college football, college basketball, tennis, golf and international sports. Email Bio Follow April 5 at 6:30 AM CHICAGO — It looks as if immigration, that ceaseless churn on a tireless planet, has hit another of its patented half-court shots.
That’s how a 5-foot-3, 110-pound hell of a man who could play some cricket in the 1950s and 1960s in Karachi, Pakistan, and who later came to adore, of all things, the Chicago Cubs, wound up as a touching tangent to the women’s basketball Final Four. That was April 1, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio, just 27 days after the sudden end of the 80-year life of Mohammed Amin, Adam’s father: 40 years around Karachi, 40 years around Chicago.
Eventually, he and Zubeda would start an Indo-Pak grocery store, a fast-food restaurant called Mr. Beef. They would find a house in Addison, out near O’Hare airport. Mohammed would work security for 22 years at 110 pounds and wink at the humor therein. They would buy more real estate, and rent it out.Along had come this tyke who’d sit on his father’s lap and watch the Cubs.
Around age 16, Adam also began calling volleyball. Eyeing a game tape one day, the coach discovered a familiar narrator. “I was laughing because it was him goofing around, but also amazed at how good he was,” Hubner said. Of his father, he said, “I’d do a Florida softball game, and he’d call me the next day, and he goes, ‘I really like that pitcher.’ What’s her name, Barnhill? She is really good. She’s hard to hit.’”
Clear into the 2010s, it became ritual that Mohammed would text Adam, “What time and what channel?” He texted that on Monday, March 5, 2018, and Adam replied, “ESPNU at 3:30. Then ESPN2 at 6,” meaning the American Athletic Conference women’s basketball semifinals from Uncasville, Conn. After those, Abdullah called Adam. While driving Zubeda in the Camry, Mohammed had suffered a heart attack and diverted onto Exit 13, not far from Addison.
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