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January 2025

Kansas City Copespiracy | GRUFF, Vol. 10
A glass of portmanteau eases the pain of Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes seemingly finessin’ and BSin’ their way to an NFL three-peat, which has not…
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Nathan Sager
The NFL’s final four has metaphors | Bills against anyone | gutting absolutism | GRUFF, Vol. 9
Catching up on the conference championship games with a chorus of 'Hail to the Doofus Culture.' Plus a thought exercise you can apply when faced with…
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Nathan Sager
NFL playoff seeding is illogical, and intolerably cruel | GRUFF, Vol. 8
Is the NFL, and its punditry at all concerned that a 14-wins team is going to have to go on the road for the playoffs? And, like everyone else, there is…
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Nathan Sager
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It's quite the Cananadrum!
There are well-adjusted Canadian fans who grasp why the juniors no longer dominate, and are here just to watch good hockey. I promise not to dunk on…
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Nathan Sager
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December 2024

SportsLit 2024 wrapped: a 6-pack of episodes (Part 3)
Whether it was touching memoirs, a team history, a biography, autobiography or a sportscaster launching a children's book series, a lot of pages were…
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Nathan Sager
Rickey Henderson, Run Scorer Nonpareil (1958-2024)
The premature death of baseball's greatest leadoff hitter means 'Rickey Stories' will be in circulation. The biography that Howard Bryant wrote that was…
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Nathan Sager
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SportsLit 2024 wrapped: a 6-pack of episodes (Part 2)
About every third episode, the podcast confronted gender inequality or sports gambling, which is on-brand for this year.
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Nathan Sager
A CFP Lazy Reader | GRUFF, Vol. 7
Entertainment media have outsized influence on who to root for in the newly expanded College Football Playoff. An incomplete but definitive list of what…
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Nathan Sager
SportsLit 2024 wrapped: a 6-pack of episodes (Part 1)
At SportsLit, every effort is made to cover the gamut of a publishing genre from A to C, sometimes even D or E. Here are highlights from a year in…
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Nathan Sager
On Randy Moss, and frailty | They are both winners | Crashing the college football playoff | GRUFF, Vol. 6
An immortal's illness hits home, we learn why you don't do the Mount Rushmore sports media trope, and a 'Bama-free College Football Playoff is a win in…
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Nathan Sager
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