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"With little other prospect for young boys rising above the poverty line ... the game of youth football gives a segment of the Miami community a single opportunity to demonstrate the rarest of organizational assets: excellence. This single fact manages to deliver a slim message of hope in this superbly written account of a strange and twisted world." - Talmage Boston, the Dallas Morning News. |
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| One of the Best Books of 2003. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| One of Sports Illustrated's "Best Sports Books of 2003." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Excerpted in SI | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paperback published by Grove Press, September, 2004. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To order, click here. To contact the author, click here. |
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| Hardcover published by Atlantic Monthly Press, October 2003. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reviews: Rocky Mountain News Seattle Times National Public Radio Salon.com San Francisco Chronicle Boston Globe The Daily Citizen Madison Capital Times |
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| We Own This Game "We Own This Game" Football Black Miami Sports Sociology Urban Studies |
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| "An illuminating look at the excessively serious world of Pop Warner football. In our sports-crazed society, coverage of fourth-grade athletic events may be the last horizon." - Gregg Easterbrook, the New Republic and Tuesday Morning Quarterback |
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| "For a glimpse at South Florida's football pipeline, read Robert Andrew Powell's illuminating account of kids' sports and their often-warped sensibilities in We Own This Game: A Season in the Adult World of Youth Sports." - Dave Hyde, South Florida Sun-Sentinel |
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