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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 26, 2004
This engaging history of the cable show SportsCenter makes the case that the sports highlight tape is the central artistic-discursive genre of our time. Sportswriter Hirshberg traces the development of the sports highlights tape from its origins in Classical Greek vase painting. In the hothouse climate of a fledgling sports cable network desperate to fill airtime, the highlights tape branched out from the staid, chronological "Who Won?" format and flourished into art. Hirshberg narrates the human drama and patho...Log In or Sign Up to Read More