This week’s RLV: Dexter Gordon, Doug Farrar on Blake Bortles, Mike Tanier’s All-Snyder Team, and our poet laureate on the President.  

If you’re new to the RSP blog, welcome to my weekend post Reads Listens Views. This is my chance to post links to articles, performances, and photos I’ve found in recent weeks that I want to share. Some of this content has to do with football, but most of it doesn’t. You might not like everything in this post, but chances are you’ll like something.

Listens – RIP Horace Silver

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Great jazz composer and I’m understating it. He was the equivalent of a gateway drug to get into the music.

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Listens – Smetena Die Moldau 

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Not bad for a deaf man, eh?

Reads (Non-football)

• How to Write: A Year of Advice – Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love
• Student Suspended for Sexual Harassment After Hugging Teacher
• How Americans Were Deceived About Cell Phone Location Data
• If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding, We’d Ground Our Fleet
• Topless Jihadis: Inside the World’s Most Radical Feminist Movement
• Healthful Habits Can Help Induce Sleep Without The Pills
• Ishmael Reed – America’s Poet Laureate – on Jazz and Our President

Listens – I Know You Got Soul . . . 

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Views

Reads (Football)

• What Really Went Wrong With Robert Griffin – Smart Football gives his take.
• Film Room: Tony Romo – Cian Fahey does a nice job highlighting the difference between talent (Cowboys) vs. execution (Green Bay)
• The All-Snyder Team – Sports on Earth entertainment from Mike Tanier.
• Doug Farrar’s Scouting Report on UCF QB Blake Bortles

Listens – Dexter Gordon

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