Mr. Allen Barra

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  By Allen Barra
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  Allen Barra is a former sportswriter with The Wall Street Journal.

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  By Allen Barra
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  Allen Barra is a freelance writer in New York.

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  Allen Barra
  
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  In a follow-up to his Clearing the Basesâ€"Sports Illustratedâ€s book of the year for 2002â€"syndicated columnist Allen Barra turns his eye from Americaâ€s pastime to Americaâ€s passion.In this collection of essays, Barra delves into the gridironâ€s all-time greats, some of the sportâ€s enduring controversies, and suggests new ways to think about the game that holds our attention from August through January, every year.
  
  Barra turns his aggressively intelligent writing to the Heisman Trophy and its controversies and demonstrates why the Bowl Championship Series has not and cannot work.He explains how the infamous tie game between Notre Dame and Michigan State in 1966 changed football forever.He compares the careers of Bear Bryant and Vince Lombardi, George Allen and Don Shula, Bart Starr and Johnny Unitas, and Joe Montana and Steve Young, probing beyond the myths that surround each man and creating a new context to understand their achievements.He explains how Notre Dame embraced a destiny in pads, beyond the Gipper mystique and Rockne speeches.No other writer challenges a sportâ€s myths, untrue truisms, and legends the way Barra does in these essays.
  
  The achievement of a writer who manages a balance between establishment insider and outspoken iconoclast, Big Play explores issues and controversies that fire up pigskin fans.Blending statistical commentary with insight and biting commentary with genuine fandom, Barra provides readers with another dose of his passionate, opinionated, and unique analysis of football.
  
  About The Author:
  
  Best known for his own column in the Wall Street Journal, ALLEN BARRA also writes for Salon.com and occasionally for the Village Voice.He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and is also heard regularly on Major League Baseball Radio.He lives in South Orange, New Jersey.
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  Allen Barra
  
  Best known for his own column in the Wall Street Journal, ALLEN BARRA also writes for Salon.com and occasionally for the Village Voice.He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and is also heard regularly on Major League Baseball Radio.He lives in South Orange, New Jersey.
  
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  Allen Barra

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  Published on: 11/26/2008    Last Visited: 11/26/2008  

  As Dowling told the Wall Street Journal's Allen Barra, "My 15 minutes of fame has lasted 40 years."
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  As Barra reminds us, the year before, 1967, a cheerleader was arrested by campus police for tearing down the goal posts after Yale beat Princeton; George W. Bush.
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  As Dowling told the Wall Street Journal's Allen Barra, "My 15 minutes of fame has lasted 40 years."
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  As Barra reminds us, the year before, 1967, a cheerleader was arrested by campus police for tearing down the goal posts after Yale beat Princeton; George W. Bush.

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  Author: Allen BarraPublisher: Castle Books
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  Sorting through the innumerable legends about Wyatt Earp and his brothers is a monumental task, but Allen Barra, a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a lifelong devotee of western lore, has tried mightily to sort the fact from fiction to determine once and for all if the Earps were heroes or villains.
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  He'd had firsthand experience in the creation of American myth, and in this remarkable volume, Allen Barra illuminates fully the man who strode into our national imagination, as well as the myths that have continually reinvented him in history, film, and fiction.
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  Barra challenges her when he references her comment that the judge presiding over the charges against the Earps and Holliday after the OK Corral fight was biased in favor of the Earps, Barras points out that judges are always biased in favor of those that enforce the law unless they are proven to be grossly negligent thus her point of view, in his opinion, is not relevant.
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  Allen Barra analyzes theories and accounts from recorded statments and newspaper articles.
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  Barra constantly reminds the reader that the fascination with America's Old West springs from romantic fables and tall tales not entirely supported by verifiable facts.
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  This is not a criticism or detraction, for Allen Barra gives a work of tempered passion that most historical biographies lack.Not bad for a Yankee writer from New Jersey.

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  By Allen Barra
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  Allen Barra is a New York-based freelance writer and author of "The Last Coach: A Life of Paul 'Bear' Bryant."

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  Boyer's critics don't mince words: "It's one big fake," says Allen Barra, a Wall Street Journal columnist and author of Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends (Carroll & Graf, 1998).

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  By Allen Barra
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  (Allen Barra is a staff writer for Salon.com and the author of "Clearing The Bases."

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  Bell had previously arranged for Allen Barra, a well-respected Wyatt Earp researcher and author, to be interviewed during this broadcast.
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  I was standing next to Allen as he waited to go on when a very agitated female Birdcage employee, wearing an 1880's costume, walked up to Allen and, sticking her finger in his face, began screaming at him to vacate the premises.Allen, to his credit, and loyally not wishing to embarrass Bob while he was on the air , quietly departed the scene.
  
  I remained in the Birdcage awaiting the next radio commercial break, and informed Bob about what had just happened, that Allen had been ejected from the premises and would not be available for interview.
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  Later it would develop that under certain similar pressures Allen Barra, noted Wyatt Earp authority and nationally prominent journalist, would have his name removed from the True West masthead.
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  When we entered Scheiffelin Hall and took our seats, Glenn began to play a cassette tape of a telephone answering machine recording that Allen Barra had once left for a local printer, advising the printer of legalities per printing certain information contained in Boyer's 'Earp Curse.' It was not clear why Glenn repeatedly played this recording, since almost everyone in attendance was already aware of the content of the message.
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  Allen Barra, his wife Jonelle, and daughter Maggie arrived soon after and Allen was waving his flyer invitation and asking for Glenn Boyer.
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  Allen Barra, his wife Jonelle, and daughter Maggie arrived soon after and Allen was waving his flyer invitation and asking for Glenn Boyer.
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  This was quite a surprise to Allen and his wife, happily married, and Allen asked Glenn for a clarification and retraction.
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  Jonelle and Maggie quickly departed this unsafe scene, whereupon Allen joined me in the front of the Hall.
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  Danny Coleman walked around the Hall, at various times hovering near Allen Barra and telling him to "shut up."
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  Whenever Danny stood with an aggressive stance next to or behind Barra, Allen showing his refusal to be intimidated by now sitting in the front row, I personally made it a point to stand next to Danny so as to cover Allen's back.

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  In a post last week, I took serious issue with New York Sun columnist Allen Barra's pessimistic take on the Giants and especially Eli.I was hoping that Eli would come out against the Bears and have one good game to stem the tide of bad games, proving me right and the pessimistic Barra wrong.Unfortunately, he did no such thing.As Barra points out in his weekly Giants recap, appropriately though melodramatically titled "Passing Game Deteriorates Along with Giants Super Bowl Hopes," Eli's 3.8 yards per throw was around half of Tiki's 7.4 yards per carry.Pretty sad, and it makes it five bad games in a row for the Easy Man.
  
  Barra's article also points out the following disturbing stat: "In his first four games," Barra writes, "Manning threw 146 passes, averaged eight yards a throw, and had nine TDs to five interceptions.
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  In his article, Barra, who has been no fan of Colonel Tom through the years, actually goes out of his way to defend him.
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  According to Barra, the logic for going for the field goal went something like this:
  
  -Feely was attempting a 52-yarder on the same side of the field that he had comfortably drilled a 46-yarder a little over an hour before. (BTW, have you ever seen that much curvature on Feely's kicks before?Was that all because of the wind?It was weird, because his first kick [the missed 33-yarder] kind of knuckled in the opposite direction.)

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