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    Sports: Go Cougs!

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    The folks over at First Things were kind enough to put my paroxysm of march madness on their group blog: http://www.firstthings.com/blog.

    Go Cougs!

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Sports: Tennis scoring

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    Why 15-Love?  “Love” is a corruption of the French “l’oeuf,” “the egg,” as in “the big goose egg.”

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    Sports: NC Rivalry

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    Over at the Books & Culture online magazine, Jason Byassee of the Christian Century – and a Duke PhD – lists some of the best lines from Will Blythe’s To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry (HarperCollins, 2006):

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    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 5:23 pm

    Sports: Paternalism

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    Some reviewers of Michael Lewis’s The Blind Side have complained about the “paternalism” of the Tuohy family who brought Michael Oher into their orbit.

    Well, tu quoque. Is it just possible that some lost kids, even lost black kids, might actually need a pater?

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Friday, June 8, 2007 at 10:25 am

    Sports: The Blind Side

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    Michael Lewis, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Hardback, 299 pp. $24.95.

    Over the past two decades, professional football has evolved so that the outcome of games often turns on the performance of one of the least-noticed and least-glamorous men on the field, the left offensive tackle.

    During the 1980s, Bill Walsh of the San Francisco 49ers transformed the NFL passing game from a high-risk venture into a precision machine. Quarterback Joe Montana’s stock went through the roof, and as other coaches borrowed from Walsh, quarterbacks throughout the league became more important, and more expensive, than ever before.

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    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 4:56 pm

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