by Steve Love | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
Pro Football Hall of Fame Photo via Brown University A Note from Steve Love: This serialization comes from a long essay on Pro Football Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard who played for the Akron Pros at the dawn of the NFL. It was intended as part of a book about...
by Steve Love | Aug 1, 2021 | Blog
With the July death of Shirley Webster, queen of the Webster ranch and Shoat Webster’s great love, perhaps the greatest of great steer ropers, Shoat once again loomed as large as life in the old mind of a little boy who had revered his very name. Shoat and his...
by Steve Love | Jul 31, 2021 | Blog
When Baker Mayfield woke up on the morning of November 11, 2018, “feeling real dangerous” during his first season as quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, it was a good thing. A very good thing. The resultant 28-16 victory over the Atlanta Falcons prompted Kevin Patra,...
by Steve Love | Jul 26, 2021 | Blog
Reaction to renaming the Cleveland Baseball Team the Guardians comes down to which side of history a person lands: the personal or something broader, more inclusive. Does your personal history with the team matter most? Or, are you more concerned about the history of...
by Steve Love | Jul 24, 2021 | Blog
As the red dirt shakes and quakes beneath the Oklahoma heart of the Big 12 Conference, its tremors running from Norman to Austin, Texas, the college athletic universe, in particular football, awaits the playing out of what could be seismic change. An account first in...
by Steve Love | Jul 23, 2021 | Blog
Photo Courtesy of Juanita Clark Richard Clark Hands Over Keys to the Lucky Winner of Two Cars A couple of blocks from the downtown hub of my life, the one that occupied my late afternoons in the 1950s—a newspaper, of course—stood a different sort of business...
