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Author Jenkins, Dan, author.

Title Sports makes you type faster : the entire world of sports by one of America's most famous sportswriters / Dan Jenkins
Published Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2018]
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Contents Individual games -- The tour stop -- Pushing the envelope -- Voices of authority -- Trouble at Old Baffy -- The fabric guy -- Golfer seeks cure -- The obscure slam -- Beware: rascals loose -- Hogan takes the Fifth -- Hogan lives on -- A personal farewell -- Another stroll down memory lane -- Tennis, no one -- "Little Miss Poker Face" -- Winter wonders -- Man you umlauts -- Summer sensations -- The first world's fastest human -- To break a barrier -- Champ for the ages -- The search -- Going flat-out -- The groupie -- Our lives in their hands -- Horses and players -- Athletes of the air -- Food fight -- The mother of sports quizzes -- The last word -- words, I mean
Team sports -- A word from the owner -- Another controversy -- The underexposed -- Whose team is it anyway? -- Funny old Cowboys -- The patriot -- You talking to me? -- The zebra follies -- What's in a name? -- The big game -- The savior -- Red Dog's diary -- A cry in the dark -- When the furniture talked -- Boyhood heroes -- More aerial bombardment -- The songwriter -- The Scout -- The chancellor steps in -- It's the clock, stupid -- The national pastime -- Man of the house -- A mortal lock and the Hungarian grip -- His moment in history -- Hurrying things up -- Look, no hands! -- High sticks and body slams -- Tally-ho, m'Lord
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SUBJECT Jenkins, Dan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50028068
Jenkins, Dan fast
Subject Sports -- United States -- Anecdotes
Sports spectators -- United States -- Anecdotes
Sportswriters -- United States -- Anecdotes
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Sports
Sports spectators
Sportswriters
United States
Genre/Form Anecdotes
Sports writing
Sports writing.
Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780875657080
0875657087