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Full of Sports: “Eating the Dinosaur” breaks down the game of football
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Fascinating excerpt from Chuck Klosterman on the most successful enterprise in American history http://tinyurl.com/yk8ynv4 30 days ago |
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@SynergisticFX Great little excerpt on football from your boy Klosterman's new book: http://bit.ly/2lV0Ym 10/28/2009 |
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Really informative and really well-done (as usual): http://bit.ly/2lV0Ym 10/28/2009 |
“Eating the Dinosaur” breaks down the game of football
Full of Sports —
“Eating the Dinosaur” breaks down the game of football [image] Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Chuck Klosterman's new book, "Eating the Dinosaur," copyright 2009 by Chuck Klosterman. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1. As I type this sentence, I'm watching the Michigan Wolverines play the Minnesota ... The Sports Section found this 9 hours ago on sports.espn.go.com Find more top sports news, videos, and blogs on BallHype: Other Chat about this and other articles by providing a comment.
A Great Essay About Football That’s Too Complicated to Summarize in a Headline
The Sports Section —
Highly recommended: this ESPN.com excerpt from Chuck Klosterman's new book Eating the Dinosaur. It's a precise description of football's appeal by way of a thorough look at innovation over the history of the sport, and what at first seems to be a smart but passing observation about football's contradictory nature (an old-fashioned, stereotypically conservative tough-guy vibe amid constant challenging and upsetting of strategic orthodoxy) is turned by Klosterman's obvious knowledge and affection into something profound.
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Gamecocks, Terps camo up for daunting Nov. 14 battles
Dr. Saturday —
... Football, despite its inherent intellectual progressivism, has always best been understood as a proxy for war, and a couple teams are ...
The Quote of the Day comes from Chuck Klosterman
Beat Visitor —
... --Chuck Klosterman in an excerpt from "Eating the Dinosaur" on ESPN.comIt's something I've wondered about myself, how a guy who gave himself the nom du blog of True Blue Liberal could find almost all of his ...
Eating the Dinosaur
SportsFilter —
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Taylor Branch’s Wednesday News and Views
Kentucky Sports Radio —
... The last chance for students to get the wristbands to go to the game is tomorrow night at the UK-UT volleyball game…that game will be on ESPNU and a crowd is needed to make the showing look great on tv. The first 2,000 students there get a wristband and can go on Friday. (4) : I dont often do links of non-UK things, but with little in the way of news, here are four articles that you ought to read…all sports related, some new and some old, but also fascinating in their own way:— Chuck Klosterman’s new book excerpt about football. One of the best pop culture writers getting it ...
The best sentences I read today
Smart Football —
... be seeing something so personal and so universal that understanding this question would tell me everything I need to know about who I am, and maybe I don’t want that to happen. But perhaps it’s simply this: Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.
The above is from an excerpt from Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Eating the Dinosaur, that appeared ...
Afternoon Reading...
WhoDeyRevolution —
... ...for the Chuck Klosterman fans out there. ESPN published an excerpt on football from his upcoming book. But don't be fooled by the word "excerpt", it's long. And good. ...
Chuck Klosterman Talks Football
TheScore.com Blog —
... You may remember Chuck Klosterman from Spin magazine back when… well, not quite back when it didn’t suck—that was long before Klosterman was there—but it certainly sucked less. Or perhaps from the books he’s authored, like Fargo Rock City or Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. Or, even more likely, from his work for Page 2 at ESPN.com—which is where they’ve excerpted some outstanding, football-related stuff from his upcoming essay collection, Eating the Dinosaur. ...
Things to Read: 10/21 + a new column from Dubs
Tremendous Upside Potential —
Send tips to rickhouse@blogsbyfans.com. And don't forget about my Mariotti takedown below. Sports Guy: Simmons and Klosterman podcasts are always a must listen. Page 2: An excerpt from Klosterman's new book. MLB Trade Rumors: White Sox offseason outlook. i94Sports: Week 6 NFL Power Rankings. The Baseline: Shoals dishes out his NBA predictions. Blog-a-Bull: Matt gets the Tyrus Thomas bitching started a bit early this year. The New Republic: Buzz Bissinger takes on ...
Unverified Voracity Pulls Around
mgoblog —
... , the artist formerly known as Big Ten Wonk. Chuck Klosterman's new book is excerpted on Page 2; Michigan zone readin' it against Minnesota is a jump-off point for a Klosterman discursion into life, the universe, and everything. It probably says something uncomplimentary about me that I thought Klosterman's description of the play was irritatingly inaccurate in an article where Klosterman apologizes for the excessive football detail four or five times, even inviting readers to skip ahead. ...
Double-T Nation Daily Diatribe :: 10.22.09
Double-T Nation —
... Eating the Dinosaur: ESPN2's Chuck Kosterman has a very interesting and lengthy piece about all sorts of things, mainly about football, and Kosterman writes quite a bit about Texas Tech's Mike Leach and his offensive philosophy, which is to run a few plays to perfection rather than run hundreds of plays to something less than perfection. I'm providing a blockquote to entice you, but go read the whole thing. I also want to emphasize the point of running a few plays, but running them perfectly, I'd encourage you to take a look ...
Mike Martz On The New Orleans Saints: “They’re going to score a lot of points and I do believe they’ll be in the Super Bowl. I think they have a real chance of doing that and that would be my pick.”
Sports Radio Interviews —
... broadcasting with the NFL Network after largely unsuccessful stints as the offensive coordinator in Detroit and San Francisco. Martz has been pretty good as an analyst, which is no surprise really considering how imaginative he is as a football mind. Coincidentally, I recently read an interesting article on the evolution of innovation in football that had a paragraph on Martz. The following is an excerpt from Chuck Klosterman’s recent book Eating the Dinosaur, which was posted recently on ESPN.
“Mike Martz, a lunatic whom no one ...
