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Q&A with Patrick Sheltra, author of 100 Things Utes Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
Utah athletics has a pretty storied history. There have been Final Fours and BCS bowls and a lot in between. If you're a fan, certainly there are memories and moments that you'll carry to the grave. Maybe it was Utah's remarkable run through the NCAA tournament in 1998 or the 2004 undefeated season...
Review: The Big Scrum - How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
My immediate thought when I first saw this book was that it would be a sugary glory story about how Teddy Roosevelt dashed in to save college football. In other words, full of more fluff than substance and more myth than reality. I could not have been more wrong. The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt...
Book Review: Death to the BCS
Granted, it doesn't take much to convince me that a playoff is superior to the existing bowl system, but "Death To The BCS" by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, and Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports surprised me with their proposal for a 16 team playoff and shooting down almost every reason to retain the...
Book Review - Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played And Games Are Won
Every once in a while a book comes along that alters how you see the world around you. Scorecasting does that relative to sports by, as the book says, "overturn(ing) some of the most cherished truisms of sports and reveal(ing) the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football and...
Book Review of Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim When the publisher of Scorecasting send me an email asking if I wanted an advance copy to review, I immediately said yes. It billed the book as "equal parts Freakonomics,...
Review: More Than Winning - The Story of Tom Osborne
University of Nebraska press re-released Tom Osborne's More Than Winning a year ago, with the hopes that the book would be taken up by a newer generation of Nebraska fans. The original was written just after the 1983 season. 1983 was a magical year, the year of the "Scoring Explosion" offense that...
Husker Volleyball Meets The Cyclones - (What Hath Terry Pettit Wrought?)
Terry Pettit sent me his book "Talent and the Secret Life of Teams" probably over a year ago. I promptly read it, loved it, then needed to review it for CN. I kept putting it off, thinking if I did it during the off-season, no one would read the review, and it would do a disservice to a guy who not...
Book Review: Historic Photos of University of Florida Football
If I wasn't already a computer geek and former band nerd, I'd be a bit of a history buff. I enjoy seeing where things were and finding out how we got to where we are today. As such, I thoroughly enjoyed Historic Photos of University of Florida Football. It's a walk through the ups and downs of...
Book Review: Bowls, Polls, & Tattered Souls
I know I'm a little late to the party with this one, what with the first edition of it being printed nearly two years ago. I do a lot of reading, but little of it is of the paste-and-page variety. Before this past Sunday, I had bought exactly one book since I left college in December of...
Review: The College Football Book By Sports Illustrated
About a month ago, Sports Illustrated contacted me out of the blue. I was pretty excited that they wanted to talk to me, since I've only been around for about 2 months. They just released "The College Football Book", a coffee table book replete with tons of great photography and great college...
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