The Sports Guy

Check out my Tumblr feed on ESPN writer and Grantland.com creator, Bill Simmons.

Addressing the Situation

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A Little Fun

If you haven't heard of Dom Mazzetti yet, you should introduce yourself. Here's a pretty funny video concerning party life in college by Dom himself.

Let's Tweet It Up

I posted some tweets today featuring some columns specifically about turning 21. There are two from The Pitt News and one from the Central Michigan Life.

zjharr Zachary Harr

Another column from The Pitt Newspittnews.com/newsstory/azza… #topicsinnonfiction

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zjharr Zachary Harr

Turning 21 from our own newspaper, The Pitt Newspittnews.com/newsstory/turn… #topicsinnonfiction

10 minutes ago

zjharr Zachary Harr

Central Michigan column on turning 21 cm-life.com/2011/10/05/col…#topicsinnonfiction

It's About To Get Creative Up In Here

Check out my newest Storify creation about Rebecca Skloot's craft of creative nonfiction!

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Genius, Niemann. Genius.

Christoph Niemann just continues to surprise me with his out-of-the-box ideas. Niemann recently participated in the NYC marathon, but didn't just run the allotted 26.2 miles. He chose to illustrate his time spent running, and kept his fans up to date by tweeting the pictures at different mile markers.

Here's an example at mile 23.8, which he labeled, "Hallucinating."

Here's the article by Gawker!

Follow Niemann at @abstractsunday!

Byliner Authors

Here are three of the authors I have started to follow on my Byliner account:

Skip Hollandsworth -- Skip's Still Life continues to be one of my favorite pieces of nonfiction I've read ever since I became a writing major. I have never read another text by Skip, so I am excited to have the chance to read some more.

Taylor Branch -- Branch has written a lot about college sports lately, particularly about the question as to whether or not student-athletes should be paid by the institutions they raise so much money for. Any writing that deals with pressing topics in today's most popular sports is alright by me.

Michael Solomon -- Ever since we read I Hope Like Heck for class a few weeks ago, I was hooked. I'm interested to see how the rest of his writing compares and contrasts when put up against his Palin poetry.