Grantland article on LSU's Mo Isom

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8278704/former-lsu-goalie-mo-isom-try-kicker-tigers-football-team-no-matter-happens-knows-not-end

 

This is an beautiful story. Deserves a read.

 

My entire body aches from reading that.

Very well done.

 

Sometimes we're observers, and sometimes we simply collaborate with someone when they demonstrate an acts of courage by sharing their life.

I really liked the ending, and that Conn wasn't afraid of the religious angle, because that part was obviously important to Isom.

I also think its a good example of why it's silly to say "I don't read Grantland." You don't have to like everything there, but there is likely something for you there of exceptional quality.

 

Discovering Conn's work has been one of my favorite things about Grantland. Have really liked several of his pieces.

 

A really gripping read. But didn't think it was spectacularly well-written as much as it was clear and descriptive of a really interesting story and set of facts and events. Maybe a case where the writer got out of the way.

I wonder how much she told on her blog prior to Grantland's writer putting his work together. She seems pretty open about a lot of things:

http://moisom.com/my-story/

 

She's a pretty good writer herself.

 

My entire body aches from working out two days in a row, but I agree that was a great story.

 

Tell Grantland, DD. It's disappeared from the front page. SummerSlam and Part 3 (!) of an Olympics diary that's boring and dated are up there, though. Mo Isom has been lost to the ether, while Grantland apparently shells out big bucks for a novelist to talk to a long dead German writer no one's heard of.

 

That was a great read.

 

Well, for starters, the story is at least three days old. I saw it when it was published (Monday?) and I had to put it aside. I know you have beef with almost all things Grantland, and your criticisms of it are always well written and respectful, but I don't think that one is particularly fair. It was the "Big Article" on Monday, and had the top spot there the entire day. It's a blog. I'm not sure what else they're supposed to do with it.

Personally, as one of the board's more outspoken Christians, I thought you would appreciate the fact that Conn didn't shy away from the religion angle, and that he wasn't afraid to make Isom's Christianity the engine of the narrative.

Did you read the piece?