Buzz Bissinger
Buzz Bissinger
Harry Gerard "H. G." Bissinger III, also known as Buzz Bissinger, is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, best known for his non-fiction book Friday Night Lights. He is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine and the former host of The Buzz Bissinger Show on CBS Radio's Philadelphia Talk/News station, Talk Radio 1210...
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athletes feeling mortal players prone team tragic
That was such a horrible, tragic moment. I thought it said a lot about Tony, the way he coaxed the team into playing. ... I know the players were shell-shocked. Athletes aren't prone to feeling mortal about themselves.
tired tales
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
wife contact ifs
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
hoping-for-something play perception
Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.
newspaper-reporters newspapers wells
Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
pageantry emotion wonderful
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
football college order
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
father son philadelphia
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
football college years
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
wall husband grandmother
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
football medical danger
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
baseball inspiration games
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
football deals
I actually like football a great deal.
dog thinking persons
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.