The Blog That Yost Built (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Everyone else has had their take on the Brett Favre situation, so it's only fitting that Allen Barra of the Wall Street Journal had one as well. It was a steaming pile of poo, but it was a take nonetheless. It pisses me off when jokers like this have a massive platform. This guy clearly just tries to be controversial, he's not very good at formulating arguments, but because he's in the...
thejetsblog.com (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Allen Barra writes for the Wall Street Journal and set his sites yesterday on the Jets trade for Brett Favre. Barra had some strong words about Favre and what it means to the Jets. Let’s strip the Brett-to-the-Jets deal of the illusions the media has wrapped it in. What we have is a 4-12 team that [...]
Redleg Nation (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
From the “I’m too frustrated to discuss the 2008 Reds” file. Recently, I finished an excellent biography of Bear Bryant, the former University of Alabama football coach, titled “The Last Coach“. It was written by Allen Barra, and it was an excellent read. Anyway, I was knee deep in college football talk when I was surprised [...]
University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Linking the Ba ses! New this month from the University of Nebraska Press, is Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century by Allen Barra. I know at one time or another we have all asked ourselves...
The Pink Flamingo (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
THURSDAY, JULY 10 My friend Allen Barra has an article in The Village Voice today about the new Yankee Stadium and the problems facing baseball today. He's also working on an updated version of his classic, Inventing Wyatt Earp, where your humble blogger is mentioned. I traded the previous Blackberry Curve for a different one. Same problems - email crashing, no connecting to the Mac....
University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
New this month from the University of Nebraska Press: the first full-length critical study of Mildred Walker's major fictional works, a new paperback edition of Sports Journalist Allen Barra's collection of the greatest baseball debates of the last century, a...
