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  <title><![CDATA[The Best American Sports Writing 2008]]></title>
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  <default_description>Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports&lt;BR&gt;Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year.&lt;BR&gt;Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications, the twenty pieces here embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Contributors include Scott Price, Rick Bragg, Gary Smith, J.R. Moehringer, and others.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm hooked on the &quot;Best American&quot; essay and short story collections, and they're usually five star material for me because they really do seem to collect the best examples of their specific genre of writing for the year (obviously somewhat owing to taste).<br/><br/>This one, however, was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67022968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks to this site, I got this book for Christmas. Thanks, Leila!<br/><br/>This is a great series, every year. This year's editor is Bill Nack, the former Sports Illustrated writer who has written the best stuff on horseracing and also did some memorable pieces on baseball, boxing, and chess over...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39671889">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always enjoy these essay collections. And this one I enjoyed all the more because it included an essay from a high school classmate of mine!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book series...starting reading these I think in 2003, great stories.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 11 12:57:16 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know, Alice reading a sports book.  But it has great profiles of athletes.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 16 19:55:50 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always loved this series, so I'll continue with it.]]></body>
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