Alexander Wolff is a writer for ''

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'' and former owner of the Vermont Frost Heaves of the

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(PBL).

Career

Wolff has written several books about basketball, among them ''Big Game, Small World'' (), a look at basketball around the world.

University of Miami articles

Wolff's most notable and notorious work was a cover article in ''

'' in the magazine's June 12, 1995 edition, titled "Why the University of Miami Should Drop

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." In it, Wolff wrote an open letter to then

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president Edward T. Foote II, expressing his view that the

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had become a "disease" that had ruined the school's image and needed to be at least temporarily shut down. In 2011, Wolff wrote a follow-up letter in 2011 to then University of Miami president

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following the

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booster controversy.

Book

''Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home'', Wolff's memoir of his father and grandfather Kurt Wolff, and observations drawn from his year living in

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, was published in 2021.

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