Comments on: Tackling a cyclone: Grantland Rice, the internet, and the death (and rebirth) of sports writing http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing Analysis and strategy by Chris. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:09:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ted Seay http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing/comment-page-1#comment-175 Ted Seay Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:05:01 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=171#comment-175 ND sux, dood. ;) ND sux, dood.

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]]> By: James Dugan http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing/comment-page-1#comment-129 James Dugan Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:23:32 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=171#comment-129 Great article and thanks for the Rice writing. I truly didn't know where the saying of four horsemen and "how you played the game" came from. I hope the internet will allow more and more voices from all levels of sports can contribute to the entertainment. But most of all, I hope new writers challenge and new readers expect high writing standards. Thanks again. www.thelunchbreakblog.com Great article and thanks for the Rice writing. I truly didn’t know where the saying of four horsemen and “how you played the game” came from. I hope the internet will allow more and more voices from all levels of sports can contribute to the entertainment. But most of all, I hope new writers challenge and new readers expect high writing standards. Thanks again.
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]]> By: Dave http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing/comment-page-1#comment-112 Dave Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:27:40 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=171#comment-112 The questionable proposition that the human race is essentially good is buttressed by the fact that on most days Jay Mariotti is allowed to walk his small corner of Earth free of physical molestation. Mind you, I find the guy entertaining. Is there any larger significance to be divined from the knowledge that both Albom and Mariotti practice/practiced their trade in Detroit(roughly translated from the French "slouching towards Gomorrah")? The questionable proposition that the human race is essentially good is buttressed by the fact that on most days Jay Mariotti is allowed to walk his small corner of Earth free of physical molestation.

Mind you, I find the guy entertaining.

Is there any larger significance to be divined from the knowledge that both Albom and Mariotti practice/practiced their trade in Detroit(roughly translated from the French “slouching towards Gomorrah”)?

]]> By: mlc808 http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing/comment-page-1#comment-98 mlc808 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:09:01 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=171#comment-98 I think you hit on something important when you said Rice was telling us not just about a football game but about the game of football. There is too little of that today. In our collective desperate hunger for fantasy stats and/or the curious need to glom on to a winner so we can woof loudly and longly (i.e. front-runners syndrome) much has been lost in true knowledge of the game -- not only the nuts and bolts (which this site does an admirable job of describing) but, more importantly, the heart and soul of it. And it is the heart and soul of football that draws young men to play and un-young men to coach this greatest of games from generation to generation. Football IS great. Writers like Rice could articulate that in a way that must be respected. Great aritcle. I think you hit on something important when you said Rice was telling us not just about a football game but about the game of football.

There is too little of that today.

In our collective desperate hunger for fantasy stats and/or the curious need to glom on to a winner so we can woof loudly and longly (i.e. front-runners syndrome) much has been lost in true knowledge of the game — not only the nuts and bolts (which this site does an admirable job of describing) but, more importantly, the heart and soul of it.

And it is the heart and soul of football that draws young men to play and un-young men to coach this greatest of games from generation to generation. Football IS great. Writers like Rice could articulate that in a way that must be respected.

Great aritcle.

]]> By: Jon http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing/comment-page-1#comment-96 Jon Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:45:39 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=171#comment-96 Rice's writing is a little flowery for my tastes. That said, he was better than many of his peers. There was a lot of pedestrian stuff written in those days, too. Check out Leonard Koppett if you are interested in baseball and/or basketball and if you get a chance, Chris. He wrote Dr. Z like books on both sports. Rice’s writing is a little flowery for my tastes. That said, he was better than many of his peers. There was a lot of pedestrian stuff written in those days, too.

Check out Leonard Koppett if you are interested in baseball and/or basketball and if you get a chance, Chris. He wrote Dr. Z like books on both sports.

]]> By: Art http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing/comment-page-1#comment-95 Art Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:29:28 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=171#comment-95 I wish I could write stuff like this...thanks for the read. I love the classic Rice piece. I miss Jim Murray as well out here in Los Angeles. But I like your stuff as well Chris. The educational well informed opinion is always worth the time to read. I wish I could write stuff like this…thanks for the read. I love the classic Rice piece. I miss Jim Murray as well out here in Los Angeles. But I like your stuff as well Chris. The educational well informed opinion is always worth the time to read.

]]> By: Todd E. Jones http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing/comment-page-1#comment-94 Todd E. Jones Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:56:20 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=171#comment-94 You can read much about Grantland Rice's writing and such by reading Gary Andrew Poole's The Galloping Ghost. Gary draws on the writings of Rice and other great sports writers to describe the play of Red Grange. Good stuff Chris! I am waiting to see if anyone will write in this kind of narrative prose again. Then again, I probably have the opportunity to also! You can read much about Grantland Rice’s writing and such by reading Gary Andrew Poole’s The Galloping Ghost. Gary draws on the writings of Rice and other great sports writers to describe the play of Red Grange. Good stuff Chris! I am waiting to see if anyone will write in this kind of narrative prose again. Then again, I probably have the opportunity to also!

]]> By: Spy Scheme http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/tackling-a-cyclone-grantland-rice-the-internet-and-the-death-and-rebirth-of-sports-writing/comment-page-1#comment-93 Spy Scheme Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:11:32 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=171#comment-93 Sports Writing used to be about who could write the best. Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Edwin Pope, Furman Bisher. Now it is about who can shout the best. Woody Paige, Tim Colishaw, etc, etc Sports Writing used to be about who could write the best. Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Edwin Pope, Furman Bisher.

Now it is about who can shout the best. Woody Paige, Tim Colishaw, etc, etc

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