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Books | ‘Global Game’ anthology en route from University of Nebraska Press

By John Turnbull ⋅ April 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Global Game: Writers on Soccer is scheduled for November release—the product of some three years of compiling, winnowing and permissions seeking by myself and editors Thom Satterlee and Alon Raab, along with strong support and belief from the University of Nebraska Press in Lincoln and heroic efforts from a network of translators, working in Spanish, French, Italian, Danish, Portuguese and Slovenian. (Apr 24)

Time to chill | Soccer with moosemeat on the side

By John Turnbull ⋅ February 20, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Soldotna, Alaska | Tired of getting clobbered by teams from southern Canada, the Northwest Territories and Yukon in the late 1960s decided they needed a circumpolar alternative to the Canada Winter Games. The Arctic Winter Games began in 1970 and incorporate games of the Inuit, such as head pull, airplane and high kick, and Dena (snow snake and other games), along with Olympic winter sports and basketball, volleyball, table tennis and indoor soccer.

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Writes Eduardo Galeano of the new collection from University of Nebraska Press, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer, "At the end, soccer believers will confirm ... that they have never been alone. And pagans will be converted." Go to website »

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For years I have felt challenged by the memory and reality of soccer, and I've tried to write something that was worthy of this great pagan mass able to speak such different languages and unleash such universal passion. (Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, 2003)