by Steve Love | May 22, 2021 | Blog
Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash Could my concern about the Brave New and Bad World being foisted off on the sporting media and their voracious publics have been ahead of the curve? That would be a first. This past November I mentioned, tangentially, in a post—Access?...
by Steve Love | May 20, 2021 | Blog
Photo Courtesy of Sherry Wilson Using a safe and approved mode in a pandemic period of the 21st Century, I Zoomed back to Nowata, Oklahoma, this week to discuss with Nowata High School junior and senior English students a book they could understand immediately and...
by Steve Love | May 15, 2021 | Blog
Photo from Akron Stories website Though perhaps a reach, when they unveiled the Rubber Worker Statue in downtown Akron, I kept thinking a word was missing. I’ve thought this for the more than 20 years, since the University of Akron Press published Wheels of Fortune:...
by Steve Love | May 14, 2021 | Blog
After the Browns received high marks for their offseason transactional work—as high as A+—the league schedule-makers put a shot across Cleveland’s bow. Take heed: The Super Bowl may not be as close as it appears through rose-colored Browns glasses. Right there on the...
by Steve Love | May 11, 2021 | Blog
With the Cleveland triumvirate of General Manager Andrew Berry, Chief Strategy Officer Paul DePodesta, and Coach Kevin Stefanski rightfully receiving kudos for the quality of the Browns 2020 turnaround and subsequent free-agency and draft build up from there, it’s...
by Steve Love | May 7, 2021 | Blog
Bucky Buck and His Mother Bonnie Lee Thaxton, Together in Prayerful Contemplation May can be an unkind month, one when the tiny flowers that dot Oklahoma’s prairies die too soon. Osage writer John Joseph Mathews once suggested that their fallen petals looked as if the...