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  Straight Shooter.    A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes.     Stephen A. Smith. You may know Stephen A. Smith as the fast talking, hard driving, often bombastic debater, and national sports pundit on ESPN for both television and radio.    Now after three decades in the business it was time for Smith to tell his life story.     Stephan A. Smith has led an interesting life.    This is undoubtedly the biggest take away from reading Smith’s memoir:   Straight Shooter.    Among other topics, we learn about his upbringing in Queen’s New York, his close relationship to his mother and siblings, his estranged arrangement with his father, the development of his burgeoning career and ascension to national prominence at ESPN.   It is a collection of the good, the bad, sometimes ugly experiences of Stephen Smith but also the perseverance to overcome and succeed.    He reveals the triumphs a...