Austin Murphy (1)
Autor/a de The Sweet Season: A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's University
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Sobre l'autor
Austin Murphy is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where he has been on staff since 1984. He lives in northern California with his wife and their two young children
Obres de Austin Murphy
The Sweet Season: A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's… (2001) 47 exemplars
How Tough Could It Be?: The Trials and Errors of a Sportswriter Turned Stay-at-Home Dad (2004) 22 exemplars
Saturday Rules: A Season with Trojans and Domers (and Gators and Buckeyes and Wolverines) (2007) 22 exemplars
"Urban Renewal" 1 exemplars
Florida Gators: National Champions 2006 1 exemplars
"Who Will Bag the Prize?' 1 exemplars
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
- Llocs de residència
- northern California, USA
- Professions
- sports reporter
- Biografia breu
- Austin Murphy has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated since 1984. He lives in northern California with his wife and their two young children.
Membres
Ressenyes
How Tough Could It Be?: The Trials and Errors of a… de Austin Murphy
Sportswriter Austin Murphy takes a shot at being a stay-at-home parent -- a stark contrast to his normal, travel-intensive existence. What he learns, the mistakes he makes, his male view on a traditionally female domain make this a funny, approachable and heartwarming story.
Sports as a metaphor for life is always classic and wonderful.
3829. The Sweet Season: A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's University, by Austin Murphy (read 29 Nov 2003) This is a 2001 book by a writer for Sports Illustrated on the 1999 football season at St. John's and on John Gagliardi, the winningest college football coach of all time (on the day I finished the book he won his 411th game, this year his team being undefeated and still in contention for the national title in its division). I think this is the first book about football I have ever read, and while it had flaws--we learned far more about the author's family than one would expect in a football book--overall the book is a winner and one can't help but feel good that such places as St. John's and such people as John Gagliardi exist.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 7
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 103
- Popularitat
- #185,855
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 13