Word: espn
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...accident and comeback have been well-chronicled—first on ESPN over the summer and then in autumn features for USA Today, Sports Illustrated and NBC’s The George Michael Sports Machine...
...this personal approach that makes the book so readable. While the on-field descriptions are written with the play-by-play style that is customary to sports announcers like Corbett, no real knowledge of football is necessary to genuinely appreciate this survey of the sport and exploration of character. ESPN fans, for whom vocabulary like “inside reverse run” is second nature, may appreciate the book on an additional level...
...alums and football fans, it might also be a real galvanizing tool to reinstate the popularity of the nation’s original football teams. There is a void in the popular consciousness and media exposure of Ivy League sports, especially, as Corbett says, when “ESPN has been overrun by dollars.” Harvard’s own Ryan Fitzpatrick confessed to the authors on page 118 that he “didn’t even know they played football at Ivy League schools until I started getting letters...
...Selection Sunday, we go to a restaurant after practice and watch ESPN,” Holsey says. “Everybody was really excited, and I was sitting there in my sling. I was so depressed because I wanted to play so badly...
...ESPN Around the Horn panelist Woody Paige voted against Holmes, saying he chose to consider the candidates’ body of work spanning the whole season...