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Take two Tablet pieces and call me in the morning
Take two Tablet pieces and call me in the morning
The A (to Z) Team
The A (to Z) Team
Required reading: The disturbing downward path of sports broadcasting
(I really cleaned it up from the original.) I found this piece from The AV Club — part of The Onion group — while doing some background on my interview with Bob Costas last week. I highly recommend it. Nothing especially Jewish about it, unless you consider complaining a uniquely Jewish characteristic. Now I probably [...]
Required reading: “The wish of an NFL wife”
Although there’s no Jewish connection, as the saying goes we are part of the world, which includes being responsible sports fans. In that spirit, I recommend readingJaclyn Fujita’s essay on being a football wife which appears in The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/blog/159361/wish-nfl-wife
Literary birthday greetings: Moe Berg
Fantasy/Sci Fi author Alex Irvine discusses his short story on Moe Berg, born this date in 1902.
Times profiles Foreman
NY Times profiles Yuri Foreman
“The Angel of Stern”
Tablet profiles NBA commish David Stern…and it ain’t pretty.
It’s academic
For those interested in more scholarly readings, take a look at this scholarly examination of “The Great Escape: The Role of the Jewish Athlete in the Early 20th Century.”
I wish I was that average like that
Rabbi Joshua Hess posted this piece about Gil (“Ga”) Meche, a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals turning aside $12 million and will retire. Meche, 31, pitched for ten seasons, never winning more than 15 games and leaving with a record of 84-83 and an earned run average of 4.49. He, who suffered an injury [...]
Walk a mile in his shoes
Sorry, couldn’t resist. But can I get an “Amen,” for this piece by Hampton Stevens on the recent nonsense about NY Jets’ head coach Rex Ryan, his, wife, her feet, and a video camera? So let me get this straight: print journalism is dying because some in extended adolescence can get the kind of stories [...]
