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Sports Life Lessons: The View from a Team’s Loss
On February - 24 - 2010
Like the rest of the athletics-crazed America, I love reading online sports articles. One of my favorite current sportswriters happens to be ESPN’s Bill Simmons.
While his mailbag and his homer tendencies towards Boston sports teams are items to joke about, the way in which he intellectually engages the reader through obscure sports statistics and his creative reasoning has the reader questioning differing aspects in the sports world.
A column I found particularly interesting—one of his hallmark pieces of writing—was the “13 Levels of Losing” article that is updated annually with more poignant examples that are used to cite his points regarding ...