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Leonard Pitts: After a year of reading books only by women, I’m a richer man for it
My bias had deprived me of whole vistas of discovery. And if you choose to see in that a broader lesson, I won’t argue.
By Leonard Pitts Jr.The Miami Herald
Or a race against time to foil a terrorist plot.
Or a zombie apocalypse. A zombie apocalypse would definitely hit the spot.
As some of you will recall, I gave up those and other literary pleasures a year ago, bidding farewell to the likes of Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy and Stephen King. Before we knew all the awful things that 2020 would be – The Year of Pandemic, The Year of Racial Reckoning, The Year of Endless Election – I stood at this podium and put my own stamp on it: 2020 would be The Year of Reading Women, I said. This, after realizing that I, avowed feminist and voracious reader that I am, seldom read female authors – that for years, I had been unconsciously but consistently ignoring them.
Alex Morgan is the reason Spurs Women are now training at Hotspur Way
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Alex Morgan’s loan stint at Tottenham Hotspur Women was more about fitness than a real desire to make Spurs into WSL contenders. She leaves the club and returns to the Orlando Pride in the NWSL with only a handful of appearances in three months of training and two goals, both from the penalty spot.
However, it appears she’s left a more lasting legacy behind the scenes. It seems she’s the reason why Spurs Women are now training full time at Tottenham’s top of the line training facility.
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