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Gunslinger (BIO Favre)

In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman tells Brett Favre’s story for the first time, charting his unparalleled journey from a rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi, to a car accident that nearly took his life, and eventually to the NFL and Green Bay, where he restored the Packers to greatness and inspired a fan base as passionate as any in the game. Yet he struggled with demons: addiction, infidelity, the loss of his father, and a fraught, painfully prolonged exit from the game he loved, a game he couldn’t bear to leave.
 
Gritty and revelatory, Gunslinger is a big sports biography of the highest order, a fascinating portrait of the man with the rocket arm whose life has been one of triumph, fame, tragedy, embarrassment, and—ultimately—redemption.
 
“The compelling, complete story of his legend, and his faults.”—Chicago Tribune (from Amazon)

Winter Olympics, February 7-23, 2014

Team USA

Olympic.org

The Final Four (FIC Volponi)

Author Notes from The Final Four

It was an amazing five months in which I wrote the first draft of The Final Four (it usually takes me closer to a year). The idea of bringing together four basketball players from different backgrounds to a single pinpoint moment on a basketball court in front of a national audience was an incredible challenge. But as with all of my novels, I was able to find inspiration in real-life circumstances. I love college basketball and the real Final Four. Most of us see it on TV, read newspaper accounts, and hear the play-by-play as a backdrop to other things we're doing around the house. That's one of the feelings I wanted my readers to experience. So I used all sorts of media, including articles, interviews, and even a play-by-play broadcast team to describe the action. I used the powerhouse Michigan State Spartans and the underdog Trojans of Troy University as the competing teams because small schools such as Butler (IN) and George Mason (VA) have made big impacts at the Final Four in recent years. (read on)

 

Kansas Fishing

Hiking Yellowstone

The Goat posted this video about Yellowstone National Park.

Pro Football Hall of Fame

Go to the official Pro Football Hall of Fame site and virtually explore the museum, access Hall of Fame members, view multimedia and digital images, and learn about the history of football.

San Francisco 49ers running back Ricky Watters scored a playoff record 30 points and five touchdowns against the New York Giants in the 1993 divisional round of the playoffs.

Vintage Baseball Cards

This collection presents a Library of Congress treasure -- 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson.

Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects. After his death, Edwards' daughter gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division in 1954.