tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11923437.post3241213486610438893..comments2008-04-30T10:57:01.951-04:00dakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02768386460112735397noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11923437.post-68057316967528409582008-04-30T10:57:00.000-04:002008-04-30T10:57:00.000-04:00From Daniel:<BR/><BR/><B>Junior's comment about W.C. Heinz's "Death of a Racehorse" being 1,000 words (and quite good, of course) is funnier when you consider Bissinger's most recent magazine article: A 13,000 (!) word piece on Barbaro that compared him to legendary sports figures and talked about how Barbaro made the world a better place.<BR/><BR/>I blogged about it last year when the piece ran in Vanity Fair. It is, of course, becoming a movie. The best line from his article was this:<BR/><BR/>"The University of Pennsylvania itself was having a field day, handling more than 500 interview requests and perhaps the most publicity the university had ever received." Yes, tiny ol' Penn, unknown in the world until a racehorse won one race on TV then got injured in another.<BR/><BR/>http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/2007/07/respected_autho.html</B>Ken Tremendoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15290167169845520176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11923437.post-71894527066597616932008-04-30T03:51:00.000-04:002008-04-30T03:51:00.000-04:00Here's some information on W.C. Heinz, whose memory Buzz Bissinger attempted to use as a club with which to bludgeon Will Leitch:<BR/><BR/><B>One of his pieces from around this time - Death of a Racehorse - is famous for its brevity (fewer than 1000 words) and its brilliance. The story centers on a promising young two-year-old horse racing for the first time, and concludes with the horse's death less than two hours later after it broke down in its first race.<BR/><BR/>Written in double quick time on a manual typewriter as the events unfolded, Death of a Racehorse is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest sports articles ever written.</B><BR/><BR/>So this piece, Death of Racehorse, was brief, hastily written, and composed as the event it concerned occurred, yet Bissinger endorses this man? How dare he embrace this human pestilence?<BR/><BR/>Plus, I totally read this piece and it was accompanied by a picture of the horse drinking from a beer bong with some sexy lady horses right before it died.<BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>Caveat: the quoted block of text comes from Wikipedia, so there is a 60% chance it is 100% false. The internet rules!Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12399868922850358920noreply@blogger.com