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Sports makes you type faster : the entire world of sports by one of America's most famous sportswriters

Title
Sports makes you type faster : the entire world of sports by one of America's most famous sportswriters / Dan Jenkins.
Author
Jenkins, Dan
Publication
Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2018]

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Description
199 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Jenkins, Dan
  • Sports > United States > Anecdotes
  • Sports spectators > United States > Anecdotes
  • Sportswriters > United States > Anecdotes
  • Sports
  • Sports spectators
  • Sportswriters
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Sports writing.
  • Anecdotes.
Contents
  • Team sports -- A word from the owner -- Another controversy -- The underexposed -- Whose team is it anyway? -- Funny old Cowboys -- The patriot -- You talking to me? -- The zebra follies -- What's in a name? -- The big game -- The savior -- Red Dog's diary -- A cry in the dark -- When the furniture talked -- Boyhood heroes -- More aerial bombardment -- The songwriter -- The Scout -- The chancellor steps in -- It's the clock, stupid -- The national pastime -- Man of the house -- A mortal lock and the Hungarian grip -- His moment in history -- Hurrying things up -- Look, no hands! -- High sticks and body slams -- Tally-ho, m'Lord
  • Individual games -- The tour stop -- Pushing the envelope -- Voices of authority -- Trouble at Old Baffy -- The fabric guy -- Golfer seeks cure -- The obscure slam -- Beware: rascals loose -- Hogan takes the Fifth -- Hogan lives on -- A personal farewell -- Another stroll down memory lane -- Tennis, no one -- "Little Miss Poker Face" -- Winter wonders -- Man you umlauts -- Summer sensations -- The first world's fastest human -- To break a barrier -- Champ for the ages -- The search -- Going flat-out -- The groupie -- Our lives in their hands -- Horses and players -- Athletes of the air -- Food fight -- The mother of sports quizzes -- The last word -- words, I mean.
ISBN
  • 9780875657011
  • 087565701X
LCCN
  • 2018014004
  • 99979212341
OCLC
  • on1031423598
  • 1031423598
  • SCSB-9259258
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries