Enjoyable read about a basketball prodigy and his struggling Massachusetts hometown whose identity has been become intertwined with its high school basketball team. The only problem I had with this book was how the author kept commenting about how the high school basketball team was everything to this town. Then I looked up the population [...]
Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
#30 – Fall River Dreams by Bill Reynolds
November 26, 2011
#25 – God and Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC by Chad Gibbs
October 24, 2011
Scroll down four books and you’ll see Warren St. Johns clever book on fanaticism in the SEC, specifically among fans of the University of Alabama, even more specifically among the RV crowd. Gibbs did what evangelicals have been doing for decades…baptized the idea for the ‘Christian’ version. Remember those little helpful charts in Christian bookstores [...]
