ESPN’s e-ticket follows Kathryn Bertine’s quest to represent the United States at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Doing just about anything, it seems. The series is Bertine’s quirky, self-effacing and sport-defacing travelogue of her attempts to qualify in the women’s pentathalon, checking out team handball to a tortuous, tortured, and not at [...]
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Top Ten Hockey Books
I love books. I buy many more than I read, and lately I’ve been buying out of print or gently used editions from amazon.com to add to my collection. Typically the used tomes fill in from days when spending $15 on a book would have put a serious dent in my spending [...]
Bertine to Beijing
Got an email from Kathryn Bertine, former ice skater, ice show skater, and very funny writer, about her deal with ESPN to pen a column chronicaling her quest to compete in the Beijing Olympics. She’s published one more sports book than me, used to skate at the rink in Colorado that [...]
Challenging Convention, One Sunday At A Time
Scott McNealy likes to pick on “conventional wisdom” as lacking wisdom. It’s one of the reasons why so many coaching books, and books written by coaches or athletes, ring hollow: they’re full of conventional wisdom or hackneyed phrases that you could glean from an hour or two of ESPN Classic.
In my on-going [...]
