Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture

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Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (1983)
How do you protect a running back?
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J-E-T-S... (November, 1994)
The most obnoxiously self-loathing fan base in sports strikes again.
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Big Fish (1996)
The cult of Deion.
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"A dag-gone miracle" (1984)
Penn State, West Virginia, and the death of college football's middle class.
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"It's a nasty world out there" (1977)
Holdouts, trade demands, and the peak of the player empowerment era.
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We Are the Robots (1997)
Strike zones, self-driving cars, and where humanity begins and ends.
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"The Band Is on the Field" (1982)
The end of college football as we know it.
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"Independently Published by Students"
College newspapers are having a moment. Except at my alma mater.
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The Pine-Tar Incident (July, 1983)
The quintessential New York sports moment.
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"Things Just Sort of Keep Happening" (Summer, 1962)
The joy--and pain--of really, really, really bad baseball
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Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture
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