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
There’ll be no more Thumbs-Up for Browns from Baker Mayfield Matt Starkey/Cleveland Browns 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...
by Steve Love | Mar 1, 2022 | Blog
Magic City Books in Tulsa, Oklahoma, featured John Scott and his Wilkinson book magiccitybooks.com 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...
by Steve Love | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog
Maybe new USC Coach Lincoln Riley forgot to teach OU quarterbacks everything usctrojans.com photo 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...
by Steve Love | Jan 14, 2022 | Blog
The Supreme Court of the NFL is the General Manager’s Office Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash 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...
by Steve Love | Jan 10, 2022 | Blog
Baker Mayfield gives a hand to Case Keenum who knows his pain Matt Starkey/Cleveland Browns National Football League coaches like to claim that their goal is to put their teams and players in situations that provide them the best opportunity to succeed. But...
