Posts Tagged ‘game’
Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Review
You know the old desert island game that lets you pick only one book as company for the rest of your days? Most folks pick…
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Tags: A.J. Liebling, book, Carl Sandburg, Donald Hall, game, Gay Talese, Hardcover, James Joyce, John McPhee, John Updike, Mark Twain, Maxine Kumin, Norton, Review, Robert Penn, robert penn warren, Roger Angell, Roger Kahn, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sports, Thomas, Tom, Warren, William Hazlitt
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Friday, February 5th, 2010

The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed all Britain’s major sports, particularly at the end of the 20th century, when they have…
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Tags: Amateurs, Britain, British, commercialization, game, inflated expectations, international audience, mass entertainment, Paperback, Politics, Post", professionalism, Professionals, Society, Sport
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Why might it help a penalty kicker to look at a clock before he kicks the ball? Does winning the coin toss actually matter? And…
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Tags: beating, beating the odds, England, game, Hidden, kicker, Mathematics, Odds, Paperback, Penalty, scientist magazine, soccer game, Sport
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Kobe Bryant Sucks out at Basketball Game! NBA NCAA
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Tags: basketball, basketball baseball, Bryant, game, game nba, Kobe, kobe bryant, Kobe Bryant Sucks, NBA, NCAA, Sucks
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
Baseball blogger Zumsteg (ussmariner.com) argues that cheating-within reason-is not only not a bad thing, it actually makes baseball a more nuanced game. Using…
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Tags: Baseball, Cheater's, game, Guide, Paperback, Pete Rose, publishers weekly, shifty characters, witch hunt, Zumsteg
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
President Bush Gets Booed at Baseball Game! MLB
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Tags: Baseball, baseball football, baseball game, basketball baseball, Booed, Bush, game, Gets, MLB, president, President Bush
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Monday, November 9th, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
Guttmann, a professor of Engish and American studies at Amherst and the author of two previous books on sports, attempts “to set sports…
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Tags: American, Ball, difficult transition, game, Guttmann, Interpretation, modern sport, Paperback, publishers weekly, Sport, Sports, Weekly, Whole
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009

The essential guide to every betting game under the sun, from the most trusted name in golfNet and Gross . . . Nassau . .…
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Tags: Betting, book, Complete, Digest, Digest's, game, Games, Golf, Hardcover, Nassau, recreational golfers, threesomes foursomes, train game
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