Reviews:
Rocky Mountain News
Seattle Times
National Public Radio
Salon.com
San Francisco Chronicle
Boston Globe
The Daily Citizen
Madison Capital Times
"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
One of the Best Books
of 2003.
One of Sports
Illustrated's "Best
Sports Books of
2003."
We Own This Game
"We Own This Game"
Football
Black Miami
Sports
Sociology
Urban Studies
"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
"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.
Hardcover
published by
Atlantic
Monthly Press,
October 2003.
Paperback published by
Grove Press, September,
2004.
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