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Law Practice

Dec. 1, 2012

Taking time for paradise: the Irish are no. 1?

If you are a USC Trojan, please don't stop reading yet. Maybe I can brighten your day, if you will just read to the end. I want to tell you about dreams and escape. By Dan Lawton


By Dan Lawton


"Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious[.]"


- A. Bartlett Giamatti, "Take Time for Paradise: Americans and their Games" (Bloomsbury USA 1989).


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