Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on Sep 1st, 2010
After you move to Tuscaloosa, Alabama you find your first encounters with Alabama Football are more like confrontations. If you are a creative writer from the West Coast, your first encounters with Alabama Football resemble the film ‘Taxi Driver’. You attempt to study at the library on Game Day and find your concentration pummeled by [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jun 28th, 2010
Nothing flips the bird at physics quite like scoring an overhead kick. The novice spectator could be forgiven for thinking it was a well-rehearsed move, like a show stopping ‘finisher’ from one of WWE’s more lissome popinjays. In truth though, not even their heroic roly-polys can match football’s apex of timing, skill and courage. Imagine [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jun 11th, 2010
You call yourself a sports fan. You subscribe to ESPN magazine and write letters to the editors when you don’t accept their sports narratives. You know stats, particularly related to the Cleveland Indians of ’78-83. You play old man pickup basketball at the rec center. You were runner up in your fantasy football league two [...]