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OT: Epic, for Stick
Posted By: Jake Jacobs
Date: Saturday, 17 September 2016, at 5:22 a.m.
When you finish reading "Bowling Alone," you might try "Epic," which purports to tell of the "greatest season" in tennis, 1980, and the rivalry between Borg and McEnroe.
I wouldn't know. I know very little about tennis and so at times have trouble following what is happening on court. For instance there is no love lost between McEnroe and a player he accused of "aiming" at his doubles partner. Seems to me one strives to aim where a player is not, not where one is. And the rival counter-claims that McE's partner was constantly putting herself in a spot where he would naturally hit the ball, and as a chivalrous sort he spent the match trying to avoid her, until a critical point was reached when he thought to himself, more or less: "You want it; you got it!" And fired one over that hit her knee.
Very exciting! And: huh?
Since you won't be asking "huh," I am sure you will love it. I am still reading even if bewildered.
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