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Love, Blood, and the Art of Sports Writing

Love & Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks

by Jamie Trecker

Harvest

October 2007, 272 pages, $14.00

[12 December 2007]

by Bradford R. Pilcher

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The hallmark of good sports writing is that it rarely confines itself to the action on the field. You rarely see that peddled in most daily sports pages.

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