A Sports Odyssey: My Ithaca Journal (Sporting). Farred, Farred, 9781439926949**

A Sports OdysseyMy Ithaca Journal\nAuthor(s): Grant Farred\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439926949, 978-1439926949\nSynopsis\nGrant Farred has long had a passionate connection with sports. In A Sports Odyssey, he weaves together an account of his own sports fandom that is profoundly personal and universal.\n\n As readers of his Long Distance Love know, Grant Farred has been a supporter of the English Premier League club, Liverpool Football Club, for decades. His fandom for that team launched an unexpected connection with a world beyond the limits of the apartheid state of his upbringing in South Africa. However, A Sports Odyssey shows that as Farreds fervor for Liverpool ended, he developed a new set of sports attachments in Ithaca, New York: to his sons youth basketball career, to the mens basketball team at Cornell University and its coach, and even to professional teams like the New Yog