by Steve Love | Aug 19, 2022 | Blog
With the finality of Deshaun Watson’s heightened punishment for violating his massage therapist victims and the National Football League’s personal conduct policy, it comes clear that the most difficult days ahead will be those of his counselor—or counselors. This job...
by Steve Love | Aug 6, 2022 | Blog
Largely and rightly, Stuart Warner’s new book, A Place Called WriterL: Where the Conversation Was Always About Literary Journalism, celebrates teaching and learning that has elevated narrative nonfiction in the hierarchy of writing. It also reeks of loss. It could...
by Steve Love | Mar 19, 2022 | Blog
When Baker Mayfield found himself trying to win the hearts and minds of the Cleveland Browns who owned the first pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, Mayfield went for the bomb. He took a verbal risk to sell himself to the Browns. He speculated and overpromised. “I think if...
by Steve Love | Mar 1, 2022 | Blog
John Scott is anything but a slow study yet it took him years to complete his marvelous archetype of learned sports biography. He began Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football in 1986. It wasn’t published until 2021. Do the math. It took Michelangelo less time...
by Steve Love | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog
Before he unceremoniously dumped the Oklahoma Sooners for USC and the lure of LaLa Land, Lincoln Riley had become known as a Quarterback Whisperer. Usually if a person works in Oklahoma, he is more likely to be known as a Horse Whisper. In a sense, Riley was. He...
by Steve Love | Jan 14, 2022 | Blog
Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash The Supreme Court of the NFL is the General Manager’s Office The National Football League can appear a heartless realm: From teams that did face-plants short of even the shallow end of NFL mediocrity to those who...
