A journey worth taking

Because this seems to be a week (or two) of Peak Hurling, I thought it might be the ideal time to use the game in order to reenact a great old George Plimpton piece.

A journey worth taking

No, not the one where he gets his nose collapsed gently by Archie Moore, but one of the lesser-known hits: the one where he takes his (very small) daughter to Yale versus Harvard in American football: Medora Goes To The Game.

My imitation was under pressure from the start, however.

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