Rice, Grantland (1880-1954)
Grantland Rice, arguably the best-known American sports writer ever, was also one of the most highly regarded personally and professionally. Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee...
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Grantland Rice covered sports throughout the first half of the twentieth century, a period that can aptly be designated sportswriting's Golden Age. He got his first newspaper job at the age of twenty,...
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Certain phrases and images enter the popular imagination almost from the moment they are created. Passages from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow remain in the minds of readers who know no other poetry. Mill...
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