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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDeep in the ochre arms of autumn 2020, Leitrim won the All-Ireland. They didn't make light work of it, and it took them two dates in Croke Park to see off a formidable Dublin side, but as they say, goals win games and...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI was told that my sister was a swimmer. She received her bronze medallion when she was twelve, as the youngest swimmer in her class, and she would become a lifeguard. My mother proudly explained that the final test...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGod, how good the pants felt, tight and satiny as they went around a player's thighs. All the pads had been slipped in first and those pants, like the rest of the game uniform, would be part of his body for the next four...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBased on William Harrison's short story "Roller Ball Murder," which first appeared in Esquire in 1973, the film Rollerball, released two years later in 1975 and directed by Norman Jewison, postulates a dystopian...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMy father and I fled Cleveland to escape heartbreak. His fiancee had dumped him for someone she met in a local park. The man had declared himself a cousin of the Flying Wallendas and, to prove it, had tightrope-walked...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMay 26, 1959. Milwaukee County Stadium. A night game. Though I have yet to turn seven, I am awake and listening to the game on my transistor radio. For me, game time and bedtime are pretty much the same time because the...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI found her. Or I guess, in this case, she found me. I knew it was her the moment I tore open the envelope and the tiny Polaroid fell into my wrinkled, dirt-stained hand. I knew it in the same way people can sense...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI was awakened by a burst of harsh light that blasted the entire interior of the car, as though a film crew were setting up for a shoot in the dead of night. But no, it was a cop shining some kind of supersized...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed2019 should have been a banner year for sport movies. The genre's most prominent release that cycle, Ford v. Ferrari (titled he Mans '66 in some places), became something of a critical darling, with media critics...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlan Turner, the Redbirds' marketing director, saw the thumbs up from the press box to start the ceremonies. He walked to home plate with a wireless microphone. Turner was a tall, athletic man who had a knack for...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI look at myself as older than I am, hardened, because I sit with a gas station coffee between my legs in an empty rink parking lot, cassette of the Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out playing. I understand in "Stray Cat Blues"...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn her 1979 essay "Women and the Laurentian Wrestle," M. Ann Hall highlighted the lack of female representation in combat sports in the Western world, asking whether it is ever likely that women will be able to have...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn the island of Hispaniola, many legends were told. They spoke of the vudu, the old days and of beisbol. In this land, where the palm trees chafed, coconuts crackled and millenia were sketched on the line of sky and...
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From:Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStudies show that germs cover every surface in the gym: mirrors, balance balls, mats, barbells, benches, walls, and the window in the space between the man running on the treadmill and the woman doing Body Pump. He...