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karibaumann's review
4.0
On page two of this book, Ed Southern, talking about the 2020 ACC men’s basketball Tournament, says, “The Tournament began on a Tuesday, with my team, my lifelong loyalty, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, losing as a 12-seed to 13-seed Pitt, the second straight year the Deacons’ season had ended in the first and least Tournament matchup. That sentence has at least five things wrong with it, none of them facts, grammar, or spelling.” Yes! I was hooked immediately. My goodness, so many things that are so different than the ACC Tournaments of my childhood (the ones where the teachers would roll the TV in on a cart so we could watch on that Friday). Every year, like clockwork, my husband listens to me complain about the tournament starting so early in the week, and I lament that there are all these interlopers in our conference.
This is a book about loving sports in the South, and the complicated feelings that we have about sports and identity and where we all might go from here. I’m not a football fan - in truth I barely know who Nick Saban is and even attending Wake Div hasn’t inspired me to watch a single football game this year - but I still enjoyed this very much as a college basketball fan and recommend it to people who care about sports and what they mean in the South. As a Greensboro resident, I especially enjoyed knowing the Greensboro/Winston landmarks and connections.
If you liked the author’s piece in The Bitter Southerner about the Braves, you will like this. Actually, if you like The Bitter Southerner and have any interest in sports, you will like this book.
This is a book about loving sports in the South, and the complicated feelings that we have about sports and identity and where we all might go from here. I’m not a football fan - in truth I barely know who Nick Saban is and even attending Wake Div hasn’t inspired me to watch a single football game this year - but I still enjoyed this very much as a college basketball fan and recommend it to people who care about sports and what they mean in the South. As a Greensboro resident, I especially enjoyed knowing the Greensboro/Winston landmarks and connections.
If you liked the author’s piece in The Bitter Southerner about the Braves, you will like this. Actually, if you like The Bitter Southerner and have any interest in sports, you will like this book.
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