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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Sports</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/sports/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Movie Review: Moneyball</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20193</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20193#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:45:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Harrison Davinger</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies & TV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aaron Sorkin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brad Pitt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jonah Hill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[moneyball]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie sport]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oakland A's]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philip Seymour Hoffman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robin Wright]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steven Zaillian]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20193</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jonah Hill shows that he can do more than broad comedy. Although awkward and nervous, Brand is severely dialed back from what we've seen Hill play before, and <em>Moneyball</em> utilizes his strengths without showing his weaknesses. The movie also wisely doesn't make this math genius some sort of <em>Beautiful Mind</em>-esque, socially incompetent robot. He's good at statistics, but he's still a human who gets caught up in the excitement of the game.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20193/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: In the Blink of an Eye by Michael Waltrip</title><link>http://calitreview.com/15100</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/15100#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Geri Jeter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dale Earnhardt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Waltrip]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NASCAR]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=15100</guid> <description><![CDATA[On the last lap, Earnhardt crashed, dying shortly thereafter. The race winner, Michael Waltrip, was celebrating in Victory Lane when he found out that he had lost one of his best friends even as he achieved one of the biggest successes of his racing career. <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>In the Blink of an Eye</em> is the story of Waltrip's journey of personal discovery as he dealt with this loss, as well as an account of how a guy from a small town in Kentucky ended up driving at the elite level in his chosen sport.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/15100/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Review: Secretariat</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12079</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12079#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:26:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>William Bibbiani</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies & TV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1970s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Diane Lane]]></category> <category><![CDATA[horse racing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[James Cromwell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Malkovich]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie family]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie sport]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Randall Wallace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scott Glenn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Secretariat]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12079</guid> <description><![CDATA[It’s a cheery film, brought to life with pomp and circumstance by Randall Wallace in what is easily his best outing as a director. Everyone is good in it, and even the great John Malkovich turns in a fine “eccentric supporting character” performance without ever feeling like he’d rather be doing something more substantial. As family films go, <em>Secretariat</em> is one of the best bets of the year… but when viewed any other way it’s merely decent.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12079/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Match Made in Heaven: Jeff Koons&#8217; BMW Art Car</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8382</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8382#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:15:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alix McKenna</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alexander Calder]]></category> <category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BMW]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Koons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Olafur Eliasson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[race cars]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=8382</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeff Koons: design sketch for the 17th BMW Art Car 2010 © Jeff Koons, Image Source: Cartype On April 6th, international art star, Jeff Koons revealed his design for his BMW art car.  The company has been commisioning artists to adorn  vehicles since 1975.  The project started when Hervé Poulain, an auctioneer and race car driver asked his friend, Alexander Calder, to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8382/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series by Mark Frost</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5093</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5093#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:48:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5093</guid> <description><![CDATA[Baseball’s World Series. 1975. The Cincinnati Reds, manager Sparky Anderson’s Big Red Machine, are up 3 games to 2 against Darrell Johnson’s scrappy Red Sox. After a three-day rain delay that has drowned any hope of an inning, the sun rises on the oldest Major League stadium still in use. It’s Tuesday, October 21, at Fenway Park.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5093/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams&#8217; Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising</title><link>http://calitreview.com/3101</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/3101#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:55:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category> <category><![CDATA[doc graham]]></category> <category><![CDATA[field of dreams]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=3101</guid> <description><![CDATA[There's a scene in <em>Field of Dreams</em> where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player wearing a New York Giants uniform. He has just seen a girl fall from the bleachers and he comes running towards her, hesitating for a fraction of a second on the edge of the grass. Then he drops his glove, takes a step and metamorphoses into the incomparable Burt Lancaster in one of his last starring roles. In an instant, Moonlight Graham has become Doc Graham, and he can never go back to the game he loved.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/3101/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1212</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1212#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:32:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[49ers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bill walsh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[football]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jerry rice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[joe montana]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ronnie lott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[san francisco]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1212</guid> <description><![CDATA["Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the bird when out driving with his family. Bill got in his last known public fist fight at the age of 65. 'Genius' or not, he was not someone to be trifled with."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1212/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics</title><link>http://calitreview.com/713</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/713#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:07:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gymnastics]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=713</guid> <description><![CDATA[From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in the 80s deployed a particularly tough approach that would be considered by outsiders to the sport, emotional abuse. As a participant, the seemingly ‘aggressive’ tactics just seemed like the norm. And I just got used to it. It didn’t seem especially awful at the time as it is what most of my friends were also going through.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/713/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed</title><link>http://calitreview.com/672</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/672#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mountain climbing]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=672</guid> <description><![CDATA[All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate of Base Camp at Mount Everest. The 8,000-meter peaks of the Himalayas have become the unfortunate repositories for what is repugnant about human nature with very little innate goodness surviving. Dying climbers pushed aside, ignored and denied medical help while their equipment is stolen, greedy guides unethical to the point of criminal, drugs, alcoholism, prostitution – hell this could just as well be inner city New York or Saigon as 20,000 feet above sea level in what used to be one of the most remote landscapes on earth. Everest has become the poster child for this debauchery.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/672/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit</title><link>http://calitreview.com/484</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/484#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:24:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fishing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flyfishing]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/sports/484/</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and live to fly fish, to cast haphazardly-tied amalgams of fur and feather to wild trout while standing knee deep in the middle of a gorgeous trout stream surrounded by jagged mountains and vast native grass prairies that drift off in all directions.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/484/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte</title><link>http://calitreview.com/290</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/290#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[outdoors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[skiing]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/12/04/a-place-for-three-seasons-crested-butte/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of this place. One can sit and admire the mountains from a bench on Elk Avenue, or from a car out on the summer roads, but to me there is nothing better in life than walking an hour or two up to Scarp Ridge or the long green alp atop Mount Axtell, to sit and see high peaks all around.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/290/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>12</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Fighter by Craig Davidson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/233</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/233#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:28:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[boxing]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/07/02/the-fighter-by-craig-davidson/</guid> <description><![CDATA[James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy and William T. Vollmann have some new company hanging out on their dark, rough, violent block. He’s Craig Davidson and here’s how he tells what he feels and sees...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/233/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>An Interview With &#8220;Pistol Pete&#8221; Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel</title><link>http://calitreview.com/223</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/223#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:33:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[basketball]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//2007/06/13/an-interview-with-pistol-pete-maravich-biographer-mark-kriegel/</guid> <description><![CDATA["One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice. Pete could stay on the court longer than other kids. Much longer."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/223/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>10</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tommy&#8217;s Honor by Kevin Cook</title><link>http://calitreview.com/212</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/212#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:32:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[golf]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//2007/06/11/tommys-honor-by-kevin-cook/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level overgrazed patches of grass that were often covered with the residue of the feeding rabbits.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/212/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>September Swoon: Richie Allen, the &#8217;64 Phillies, and Racial Integration by William C. Kashatus</title><link>http://calitreview.com/165</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/165#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:58:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Paul Blairon</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/september-swoon-richie-allen-the-64-phillies-and-racial-integration-by-william-c-kashatus/</guid> <description><![CDATA[For Philadelphians over a certain age, the year 1964 evokes bitter memories of a Phillies team securely ensconced in first place by 6 ½ games with only 12 games left to play in the season.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/165/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream</title><link>http://calitreview.com/130</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/130#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:31:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bradley Kreit</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category> <guid
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