• Andrew Forbes

    About Andrew Forbes

    Andrew Forbes is the author of liner notes, short fiction, and countless music essays. His stories have been published in Found Press Quarterly, PRISM International, and The New Quarterly. He also writes about music at thisisourmusic.ca and iCrates.org. Nothing qualifies him to write about sports save for a lifetime of unhealthy obsession, careful consideration and gutpunch heartbreak. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario. Follow him on Twitter @ForbesAG.

    When They Falter

    by  • January 30, 2013 • Andrew Forbes, Features, Football, Media • 0 Comments

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      How traditional media failed us in the strange case of Manti Te’o      HEROES ARE IMPORTANT. We need them for a variety of reasons: encouragement, amazement, entertainment, consolation, understanding. I’m opening “hero” up to its broadest definition here, not just quarterbacks and clutch home run hitters. Your mother can be your hero....

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    Defunct

    by  • January 14, 2013 • Andrew Forbes, Baseball • 0 Comments

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    Why we want the ones we can’t have      I’M WAITING ON A PACKAGE. It’s somewhere between here and Seattle, and it contains a trove of loss and defeat: three ball caps from minor league baseball teams that no longer exist. This is a thing I do. It’s kind of one of my...

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    Forty Years Later

    by  • January 1, 2013 • Andrew Forbes, Baseball • 0 Comments

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    “Memory and myth are entwined in the Clemente story. He has been dead for more than three decades, yet he remains vivid in the sporting consciousness while other athletes come and go, and this despite the fact that he played his entire career in relative obscurity, away from the mythmakers of New York and...

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    1989

    by  • November 22, 2012 • Andrew Forbes, Football • 0 Comments

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    I DON’T KNOW HOW WELL YOU REMEMBER 1989, but it was a pretty remarkable year. The Beastie Boys released a masterpiece (Paul’s Boutique), Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing hit theatres, as did Tim Burton’s Batman (lineups around the block for that one), but Driving Miss Daisy took Best Picture. Down south, Bush the...

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    War and Games

    by  • November 12, 2012 • Andrew Forbes, Basketball, Features • 0 Comments

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    THEY PLAYED A COLLEGE BASKETBALL game on the deck of an aircraft carrier Sunday, a perfectly ridiculous thing to do, for a number of reasons. Up there on the deck of the USS Midway, anchored in its permanent berth in breezy San Diego harbour, ninth-ranked Syracuse battled that wind and a bright SoCal sun...

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