Kinesiology 3378F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Team Sport, Opiate, Augusta National Golf Club
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Disappointing because he loses the big fight in the end even though he trained so hard and was so confident. Such a nice guy relate to the character. Lots of dialogue in the book not much actually happens; not much action. Subtle foreshadowing the press always talk about how there"s more of a story with a loser. Life lesson so sure you"re going to win but there always has to be a loser. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity one lucky punch devastated the boxer. Run to daylight and the extremely popular tv series, mash, the latter written by heinz under a pen-name. Covered boxing as a sportswriter for decades, primarily in 50s and 60s. His best remembered piece: death of a racehorse, 1949. Less than 1000 words, won all kinds of writing awards. Why set the novel in a training camp like watching grass grow.