Rick Telander
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Rick Telander is a sports columnist with the Chicago Sun-Times. In October 2006, Telander began writing a blog on ESPN.com. He has regularly contributed to Sports Illustrated.
Telander graduated from Northwestern University, where he played football.
Telander is the author of Heaven is a Playground (published in 1976), which chronicles his experience spending the summer of 1974 with the street basketball players of Brooklyn. He is also known for his book The Hundred Yard Lie (published in 1989), which describes how abusive the culture of college football can be to the students who play it.
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On Steve Irwin: "Besides putting himself recklessly in the path of creatures' natural instincts, hyperventilating 'Crikey' every so often, and mesmerizing awe-stricken kids crouched in front of TV sets -- what exactly did Irwin, lauded as a conservationist, do?"[1]
