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Back Checking on Hockey
Thoughts from a Former Hockey Night in Canada Reporter By Mike Gange From the Broadcast Booth: My life in Hockey Broadcasting Brian McFarlane HBFenn, $32.95, 309 pages. “No cheering in the press boxes.” It’s a message that is rarely posted in the media booths at sporting venues, yet it’s understood by all who work there. … Continue reading
Taking Play Seriously
Review by Mike Gange The Best American Sports Writing (2010) Ed. By Peter Gammons Mariner Books, $18.95, 411 pages There are many valid criticisms of present day sports writing: too much emphasis on winners and losers, with winners being celebrated and losers being made out to be the goats; not enough analysis of issues such … Continue reading
The Mouse that Roared
Review by Mike Gange The Top 100 Canadian Singles By Bob Mersereau Goose Lane, $35, 216 pages In the year 1969, the U.S. seemed to be in the news for all the wrong reasons – race riots, inner city turmoil, and an unpopular war in Vietnam – all of which gave outsiders an impression that … Continue reading
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