This week’s sports-related post
As In Other Media composes this post, the indispensible auto-updating ESPN.com scoreboard indicates that Bucknell is leading Arkansas by five with less than five minutes to play in the second half. If you enjoy U.S. college basketball and, in particular, the NCAA tournament (perhaps better-known by broadcaster Brent Musburger’s term: “March Madness”) then that made perfect sense to you, if not, well, sorry. But The Book Standard has a piece (which we noticed on Bookslut) about how college baseketball books are dominating its sports and recreation bestsellers chart right now. The top title is a book by Will Blythe called To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever about the rivalry (probably the most intense in North American team sports, right now) between Duke and North Carolina. Perhaps the most intriguing book project inspired by that rivalry, however, is Aaron Dinin’s The Krzyzewskiville Tales, a work of fiction modeled on The Canterbury Tales and set in the tent community named for Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski where “the Cameron Crazies” (diehard Duke fans) camp out to get tickets for home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Dinin, a junior at Duke when the book was finished, was published, naturally, by Duke University Press.
UPDATE: Barring a buzzer beater, it looks like Bucknell is going to hold on; they lead by three with eight seconds left. God bless ESPN!
Related links:
Click here for The Book Standard article
Click here for the Duke University profile of Dinin
