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Conquering Iwo Jima (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureGoosebumps covered my arms and legs. The sunscreen I had slathered on my skin just hours earlier would not be necessary. For a marathon, it was a perfect day. I ripped a hole in th...
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Sport in Artur Azevedo's Revues: A Reflection of Developments in Late 19th Century Rio de Janeiro Society (Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureIn this article, we have no intention of discussing intersemiotic dialogues or the similarities and dissimilarities that can be identified between the languages of 'sport' and 'the...
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Boys to Men Or Boys to Boys? Biff Loman and Brick Pollitt: Surviving Football in Death of a Salesman and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureRobert Wilson, Ernest Hemingway's British safari guide in formerly British East Africa (Kenya today), reflects on the metamorphosis of his American client from coward to "fire eate...
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Poetics and the Beautiful Game (Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureSoccer fans often claim their sport is "the beautiful game." But anyone who has ever played or watched the sport must concede that not all games are beautiful. The history of socce...
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First, Plant Your Feet (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureTe gym doors open and I'll be damned if it isn't Charlie Magnuson. He's talking on a cell phone and wearing a suit. I nudge Tree and point. "Where did he come from?" Tree says.
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Sporting Literature and Social Consciousness: Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds; Or, New Blood in Old Kennels (Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureIn his "Noctes Nimrodianae" for January 1833, "Nimrod" discusses the value of underbred hounds with the "Editor" of the New Sporting Magazine: The magazine's "Editor," a mask for R...
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The Olympic Games, 393-1896: the Survival of an Idea in European Literature (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureOn November 12, 2003, at the Athens Concert Hall and performing under the baton of Nikos Tsouchlos, the Virtuosi di Praga presented excerpts chosen from several different versions ...
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When We Rise: The Light Shines in the Darkness ...
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureFor Hugh Dragswolf, good friend, gone now. OUTSIDE, THE SNOW came down slow and soft, the same big snow they'd seen for the last few hours, everything white and new, the world l...
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The Great Henry (Homer Huffman) (Biography)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteraturePrior to taking the birch, he briefly considered discussing with Coach the negative aspects of corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure. He also considered bringing up Clarenc...
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Sport in Artur Azevedo's Revues: A Reflection of Developments in Late 19th Century Rio De Janeiro Society (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureIn this article, we have no intention of discussing intersemiotic dialogues or the similarities and dissimilarities that can be identified between the languages of 'sport' and 'the...
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Baltimore Colts and Diner Guys: Pro Sports Fandom and Personal Identity in Barry Levinson's Diner (Movie Review)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureBarry Levinson's first film as both writer and director, Diner (1982), was a sleeper hit across the nation. While studio uncertainty regarding how to distribute the film meant that...
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Slow Dancing at the Sound of Speed (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureWe were dancing, swaying rhythmically, sweetly to the music, when she leaned closer to me, tilted her face towards mine, and said, "Sylvester Lovejoy is the fastest hundredmeter ma...
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Nordby's Revenge (Roger Nordby )
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature"Do you have any change?" Margaret asked her husband, snapping her purse closed. "How much do you need?" Roger asked, smiling at the grocery store clerk in the checkout aisle.
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Stillwater (From Aethlon) (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteraturePerhaps it was a joke. Or a clerical error. That was Mr. Iba's initial reaction to the letter that was posted six months after his wife's death, from an assistant coach named Ernie...
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The Flash and Dazzle of Sports Poetry.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature"Man is the rival of other men; he delights in competition ..."Charles Darwin "I think of girls to pass the timea different one at each end of the pool."Mark Spitz
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The Longest Yard. Dir. Peter Segal. With Adam Sandle, Chris Rock, Nelly, And Burt Reynolds (Movie Review)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureThe Longest Yard. Dir. Peter Segal. With Adam Sandle, Chris Rock, Nelly, and Burt Reynolds. Paramount, 27 May 2005. DVD release: 20 September 2005. 109 minutes. Rated PG13. It w...
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Wanted: A New History of American Sport Fiction (Reflections from 25 Years of the Sport Literature Association)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureI first learned about the formation of something called the Sport Literature Association in a letter from Lyle Olsen, our spiritual and actual founder, which he sent to me as someo...
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Camelot Undone (Miriam Solomon)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureA discreet Enter Here sign hung on the railing of the weathered wooden gate that stood open, a cavity in a thicket of tall, closely planted Florida pines. The silver Jaguar turned ...
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An Elegy for Quiz: The Plaintive Verse of Baseball's Best Poet (Dan Quisenberry) (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureSeptember 2010 marks the twelfth anniversary of the death of Dan Quisenberry. Although he was the most dominant relief pitcher in baseball from 1980 to 1985 and the recipient of nu...
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Sacrifice Fly.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureThe last man standing in the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) post in my hometown of Saugus, MA was Doctor George W. Gale. The post was Gen. E. W. Hinks Post 95, Grand Army of the ...
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The Pinch Hitter (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureI sat at the far end of the dugout in a litter of paper cups as the game moved into the seventh inning, still scoreless, and our manager made no signs, gave no indication of any ki...
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Cobb and Me (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureCobb came to stay the day I gave Coach the idea. It was the day Memorial kicked our ass and made it ten straight in the loss column, too. "I'm at wit's end, Jim," Coach said to me....
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A Boy of Summer (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature"Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved, and it is to this world that he returns incessantly." FrancoisRene de Chateaubriand, French ...
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One of the Boys (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureThe tube from the mask over my mouth and nose trails like an umbilical cord to a machine behind me. I can't see it. I can't hear it. But sixteen times minute it puffs oxygen into m...
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Pastime.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureIn photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality .... I do not object to retouching, dodging, or accentuation as long as they do not interfere wit...
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Top of the Ninth (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureSweet Jesus. He could hardly hold the steering wheel straight, much less believe what he was listening to, what the typically calm, even bored, announcers were now saying with voic...
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Sport Fiction and the Untellable: Cliche and Language in Don Delillo's End Zone.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureTough it is often acknowledged as one of the best novels written about sport, Don DeLillo's End Zone has never really struck me as a sports novel. Michael Oriard and Christian Mess...
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"Mi Carne, Mi Sangre, Mis Ilusiones": The Collision of Words and Worlds in Milcha Sanchez-Scott's the Cuban Swimmer (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureIn the spring of 2009, when I was floundering at learning Spanish while teaching a course in magical realism with my university's study abroad program in Montevideo, Uruguay, a col...
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Young Wesley Brown.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureYoung Wesley Brown bade an extended farewell to his elderly fans. He was loath to part from the 'Silver Devils' who had encouraged him during his lengthy recovery from yet another ...
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To Bobby, "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih": Bill Gaston's the Good Body.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureAfter the opening battle with the Germanian barbarians in Gladiator, Caesar Marcus Aurelius says to General Maximus, "When death smiles at us, all we can do is smile back," a fitti...
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The Etymology of Family.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureThere was a good reason for Coach Tyrone Gage to be in a cold car outside a Detroit housing project, a thousand miles from home. Every last brother on State's team was mad at him. ...
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Last Century, With Shirley Povich: The Sportswriter As Chronicler, Critic, And Historian.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteraturePresident Richard Nixon once quipped, "Shirley Povich is the only reason I read the Washington Post." (1) Considering Nixon's personality and politics, it is surprising that he adm...
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"A Ball As Big As the Moon": Sports in Richard Ford's Fiction (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureDespite the popularity of Richard Ford's The Sportswriter and the fact that sporting figures and references to sport occur throughout Ford's fiction, few readers would characterize...
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High Island Blues: The Sport of Birding in the Novels of Ann Cleeves.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureNothing could have been simpler than 'birdwatching" An activity by that name would have required nothing more than one person, alone, watching birds, any birds ... But in the early...
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"A Style of Living Through Disorder:" Sport in the Fiction and Philosophy of Henry De Montherlant (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureHeralded as one of the three or four great moralistes of French literature (de Laprade 107), and even at one time as "France's greatest writer," the French writer of today who "wil...
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The Diagnostician and the National Pastime: Baseball As Metaphor in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureIn a November 26, 1920 letter to Sinclair Lewis, after reading the bestseller Main Street, the English novelist John Galsworthy declares: "Every country, of course, has its Main St...
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Playing Through the Dark: "Blindness" As a Vehicle for Transcendence in Selected Sports Poems.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureAfter Frost's "Stopping By Woods...," William Stafford's "Traveling Through the Dark" is probably the most anthologized "wayfarer" poem in American literature. In "Traveling," the ...
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The Throw (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureDizzy Dean knew from experience that hustlers with a lot of money had no scruples about losing their rubles just to lick him. Benson Townsend was no different, except that maybe he...
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The Sports Literature Association Meeting at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, 1994: an Exercise in Fragmentary Autobiographical Narrative (Reflections from 25 Years of the Sport Literature Association)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureI don't remember going to the airport, waiting at the gate, or getting onto the plane. I certainly don't remember the airline I flew on, or the number of the flight. But I do remem...
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"Glory, Glory to the Black and Orange!": Princeton, The Ivy League Football Hero, And the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureA many of his biographers have noted, E Scott Fitzgerald had a lifelong interest in football, both as a player and a fan. Several scholars have also duly noted in books or individu...
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Athletic Bodies and Sport Literature for Young Adults in Japan (Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureIn recent years, excellent sport novels have begun to appear in Japan. It should be noted that outstanding works among these novels have been written by female authors of young adu...
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Anniversary Offering (Reflections from 25 Years of the Sport Literature Association) ('the Doaker's Story' by William T. Doakes) (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureWere it not for Aethlon (nee Arete), my literary efforts might have been frustrated, my intellectual engagement with defining issues stifled, my views denied an audience. In a sens...
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Body Shots (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature"He can run but he can't hide." Joe Louis
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Sports, Politics, & the Corruption of Power in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureRobert Penn Warren often resisted critics' suggestions that All the King's Men was strictly a "political" novel. Warren insisted that "politics provided only a framework for the ac...
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Winner, Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay: "I would have been Happy Just to Catch While the Father Pitched": The Father-son Game of Catch in Young Adult Literature.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureIn Richard Wilbur's short storyturned picture book, "A Game of Catch," seventhgraders Monk and Glennie "slap" the ball "back and forth" (15) in a "slow, mannered, luxurious dance i...
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Presence, Sport and Falling Short: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Lili Alvarez (Critical Essay)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureDuring the UK coverage of the first quarter of Super Bowl XLI, a US commentator remarked: "When you force athletes to think, they make mistakes." (1) This casual observation unwitt...
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Needles in a Bike Pack (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureBernie Matin had to pee. Vladi Oleeson, the team director, told Bernie as he rolled his bicycle to Sedrin, the team mechanic for its postrace maintenance. "Bernie," Vladi said in h...
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Errors (First Place Fiction)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureMy search for Billy Kapanka had led me as far west as Columbus, Ohio, where, until a few weeks before, he had worked in a Denny's as a fry cook and rented a furnished room. He had ...
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Shortcuts to the Mind of a Diver.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureCoral Dive (January 1971) This life is disquiet of the self which has lost itself and finds itself again in its alterity. Yet the self never coincides with itself for it is alwa...
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The Team Are off: Getting Inside Women's Experiences in Professional Sport (Short Story)
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport LiteratureDC: Kitrina! You can't do everything at once. Well, even if you can cope with everything at once, I can't. First you're talking about motivation, then you're onto retirement experi...
