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    FOURTH QUARTER

    Nov 08, 2022 2 minutes

    JOURNALIST BUZZ BISSINGER is best known for his seminal book (1990), which captures football’s unique place in American culture through the lens of the 1988 season at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. With his latest book, Bissinger recounts a memorable football match staged during one of World War II’s deadliest periods, the island-to-island slog in the Pacific

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