Jack is a true football freshman, buckling up the pads for the first time and figuring out how to run, scramble and tackle in full football regalia. So expectations regarding playing time are low; we are happy with any snap or play in which No. 15 runs out on the field. So a 42-0 shellacking […]
Archive | September 1, 2011
Writing The Season
Seventeen years at The Sporting News, a national weekly sports magazine, should have prepared me for one year of covering HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. But while the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern taught me the intracacies of story development, nothing I learned there prepared me for feeding, clothing and watering a 190-pound defensive end and a 130-pound wide receiver. So I'm writing about it -- and tweeting everything from how to stay awake when the spin cycle begins at midnight to watching your sons run onto a field on a golden, crisp fall evening.
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