"Cricket, like every sport, is an activity and the dream of an activity, badged with random ideals, aspirations, and memories."
20 May 08
—James Wood, in his New Yorker review of Joseph O’Neill’s new novel Netherland.
"When he and I talk, it's never about football... We talk about 'Lost' and all these abstract mysterious things that happen on this haunted island."
Charley Enos, college teammate of Niners quarterback J.T. O’Sullivan, describes the lighter side of his friend. O’Sullivan, a journeyman who will start for San Francisco this year, also counts the surfer film “North Shore” among his favorite movies.
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