@SprtBookReviews @byAaronFisch The Barn by Wright Thompson. Nothing to do with sports — it’s a sobering and memorable book about the lynching of Emmett Till.
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David Davis
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Waterman:Life & Times of Duke Kahanamoku & Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from WW II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights
LA Katılım Nisan 2011
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What's everyone reading over the holidays?
I'm starting with these 2:
⚾️ A Baseball Gaijin by Aaron Fischman @byAaronFisch
🏀 As If by Magic: The Story of Larry Bird's Indiana High School Basketball Days by Randy Mills
Plus, whatever Santa brings
What will you be reading?
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What are your favourite 2024 sports books or the best one you read this year?
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A terrific SLR by @davidsirota is in our members’ in-boxes tonight. Goes wide tomorrow at 7 am ET. ☕️💪🏻👏🏻
David Sirota@davidsirota
I’m guest editing this week’s @SundayLongRead which is one of the most widely read newsletters throughout the media industry. It’s, um, quite an interesting week to be writing it… stay tuned…
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This weekend’s @sundaylongread features journalism giant @meridak as our guest editor. Kevin’s opening essay and top selections will wow you.
Subscribe to the SLR— it’s still free! sundaylongread.com
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This photograph, taken last week, of a four-meter-long male crocodile is elevated by the lighting conditions at dusk. Three hours before, it was all too bright and any photographs would be less dramatic. He is believed to be over 110 years old and weighs more than 750 kgs.
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Hey Spokes! Team USA men's wheelchair basketball team have brought home the gold ... for the third consecutive time. (Photo by Naomi Baker/Getty). #sns2024 #TeamUSA #ParisParlympics #ParalympicGames
READ ALL ABOUT IT - sportsnspokes.com/gold-for-mens-…
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Hey Spokes! Team USA men's basketball advance to face Team UK in the finals after their semi final victory over Team Canada. (Photo by Danny Chin/WSF). #sns2024 #TeamUSA #ParalympicGames
READ ALL ABOUT IT - sportsnspokes.com/team-usa-mens-…
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“Baseball’s Last Dive Bar” book campaign is off to a great start. Thanks to the first 35 backers, we are 12.5% of the way to our goal in the first 12 hours.
Please support or share. ⚾️🏟️
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I am thrilled to announce the start of a Kickstarter campaign for my 10-year-long Oakland Coliseum photo project.
Thanks to a thumbs up from the fine people at @LastDiveBar, the book is titled-
"Baseball's Last Dive Bar- A Celebration of the Oakland Coliseum."
Please support this effort or just spread the word.
kickstarter.com/projects/scott…
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An excellent book exists on the origins of wheelchair sport, disabled sport, and the Stoke Mandeville Games by @DDavisLA - see "Wheels of Courage" - amazon.com/Wheels-Courage…
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And we should remember the Paralympics "began" as the Stoke Mandeville Games in rural England (Aylesbury) in the late 1940s, led by a physician Ludwig Guttmann, who helped pioneer sport for disabled people.
Michael.R Payne@MichaelRPayne1
To celebrate the #Paralympic2024 Games in Paris, one of my all time favourite cartoons from the brilliant @JimmySportToons Paralympics have come a long way since 1911 - when first organised disabled sports event was staged - & called 'the Cripples Olympiad!' #Paralympics
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The SLR celebrates its 10th anniversary in November! We’ve invited back 10 of our favorite guest editors this fall— an SLR 10 for 10.
We coaxed our friend @peter_king out of retirement this week to kick off the fun…
Peter King@peter_king
It was my honor to put together this week’s The Sunday Long Read, @sundaylongread , which is a regular part of every week for me. Hope you enjoy my picks. mailchi.mp/sundaylongread…
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Authors!
I’m helping to spearhead a group called #AuthorsForKamala. If you’re interested, send me a DM and I’ll tell you how to proceed. Ann Patchett, Elizabeth George, George Saunders. Jodi Picoult, Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Lemony Snicket are in. How about you?
Pls RT.
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@EdgeofSports Check out his new memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club, an excellent read that details what happened.
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Griffin Dunne is really great in this. Other than Johnny Dangerously, I wonder why he didn’t act more.
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For my people who both know football and like low-budget Scorsese, the lead in After Hours is named Paul Hackett.
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Burrito bowls, art rescues, cold cases... this week's newsletter has all that and more! Ft. @ron_cassie, @reeveswiedeman, @itscaitlinhd, @chiggi,@ClareMalone, @zachsdorfman, @JeffEisenberg & many other talented writers mailchi.mp/sundaylongread…
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"This story from the Cleveland suburbs spins its perspective in every conceivable direction, wondering if the world has learned a lesson, if we’ve changed... All that insight, from one hurled burrito bowl." @JacobFeldman4's top pick by @reeveswiedeman grubstreet.com/article/chipot…
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Seems like every Olympics photographer has visited this vantage point to make a photo, but only the great David Burnett has put uniquely made it his own.
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