Inside the ropes sportswriters get their game on /
Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover--returni...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln, NE :
University of Nebraska Press,
c2008.
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| Online Access: | ebrary View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary |
| Summary: | Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover--returning with firsthand tales from "inside the ropes." Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sportswriting at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of today's best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game behind the. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 480 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0803219075 (electronic bk.) 9780803219076 (electronic bk.) |