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Tag Archives: Sports
Poems on Mayweather, Manziel, Rivera
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Baseball, boxing, Floyd Mayweather, Football, Humor, Johnny Manziel, Mariano Rivera Comments closed
Running at Twilight
Here’s a poem for anyone who has experience the ecstasy of running at twilight.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Night Runner's Prayer", Mykie Silz Reidy, Running Comments closed
Manziel: Whom the Gods Would Destroy…
Johnny Manziel has “Greek tragic hero” written all over him.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Doctor Faustus, Football, Johnny Manziel, Marlowe, Oedipus, Sophocles Comments closed
The Boys of Summer
Fitzgerald’s baseball poem captures the sounds and the textures of the game.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Cobb Would Have Caught It", Baseball, Robert Fitzgerald Comments closed
Baseball Frees the Imagination
Baseball, like reading, encourages the imagination to soar.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mystery Baseball", Baseball, Marshall McLuhan, Philip Dacey, Understanding Media Comments closed
Take Me Out to the Lynch Mob
A baseball poem by William Carlos Williams captures well the two sides of a crowd.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Crowd at the Ball Game", Baseball, crowds, mob violence, mobs, William Carlos Williams Comments closed
A Pitching Poem to Honor a Pitching Great
Gerald Hern distilled a manager’s dilemme to its essence in his poem about Spahn and Sain.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Spahn and Sain", Baseball, Gerald V. Hern, pitching Comments closed