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Austin Murphy is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where he has been on staff since 1984. He lives in northern California with his wife and their two young children

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Sports Illustrated | May 16, 1994 (Tainted Title) (1994) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Gender
male
Places of residence
northern California, USA
Occupations
sports reporter
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Austin Murphy has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated since 1984. He lives in northern California with his wife and their two young children.

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Sportswriter Austin Murphy takes a shot at being a stay-at-home parent -- a stark contrast to his normal, travel-intensive existence. What he learns, the mistakes he makes, his male view on a traditionally female domain make this a funny, approachable and heartwarming story.
 
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wareagle78 | Jan 26, 2014 |
Sports as a metaphor for life is always classic and wonderful.
 
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Firecrackerscribe | 1 other review | Apr 2, 2013 |
3829. The Sweet Season: A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's University, by Austin Murphy (read 29 Nov 2003) This is a 2001 book by a writer for Sports Illustrated on the 1999 football season at St. John's and on John Gagliardi, the winningest college football coach of all time (on the day I finished the book he won his 411th game, this year his team being undefeated and still in contention for the national title in its division). I think this is the first book about football I have ever read, and while it had flaws--we learned far more about the author's family than one would expect in a football book--overall the book is a winner and one can't help but feel good that such places as St. John's and such people as John Gagliardi exist.… (more)
 
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