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Olympic hero Jim Thorpe's barnstorming life included one happy year playing baseball in Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhile Olympic gold medalist and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Thorpe may have been the world's greatest...
Review: A legendary Native athlete is restored to glory by the Olympics and a rich new biography
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJim Thorpe was both a man and a myth, one that endures a century after his story unfolded. The Native American athlete’s life had the arc of tragedy — a chaotic upbringing; glory in collegiate ...
BookLovers: Five more books to add to your beach bag
The Standard-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOur summer reading series continues, BookLovers. Whether you’re headed to Horseneck, Round Hill, or your own backyard, I have — you guessed it — Five...
Tramel's ScissorTales: Why OU-Texas is a bigger get for SEC than USC-UCLA for the Big Ten
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSoutheastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey made an off-hand, but on-point, comment the other...
The 5 best nonfiction books of 2022, according to Mary Ann Gwinn
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years ago(Illustrations by Mel Cerri / For The Times. Book jackets from Little Brown, Liveright, Simon &...
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners announced
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJames Ellroy enthusiastically accepts the 2022 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement at the L.A. Times Book Prizes ceremony Friday. (Varon...
Rachel Howzell Hall, George Saunders, James Hannaham among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Los Angeles Times Book Prizes recognize works in 12 categories, with winners to be announced at...
This week on "Sunday Morning" (October 22)
CBS News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA look at the features for this week's broadcast of the 2023 News & Documentary Emmy-winner for Outstanding Recorded News Program, hosted by Jane Pauley.
Doyel: Hamilton County library board embarrassing us, making it harder for kids to find books
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoThe war on books in Hamilton County sounds like something out of an earlier version of America, when...
Azzi: Wake up to Woke this Presidents' Day
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that," Roberto Clemente said,...