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The Sweet Season: A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's University

by Austin Murphy

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A season inside St. John’s football program, and a family’s move to Minnesota

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A season inside St. John’s football program, and a family’s move to Minnesota

Austin Murphy shifts his attention from the celebrity-driven world of major sports to a Division III season at Minnesota’s St. John’s University. The book combines his chronicle of the Johnnies’ football program under coach John “Gags” Gagliardi with the practical and personal dimensions of relocating his family to an unfamiliar community for several months. Football remains central, but the account also frames the season as a change in professional perspective, family routine, and religious surroundings suggested by the title. Its setting offers a smaller-scale counterpoint to the high-profile sports beat Murphy had covered for fifteen years.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in college football beyond the major divisions
  • Sportswriting readers curious about a season-long team chronicle
  • Readers who enjoy memoirs linking work, family relocation, and community

Themes

Division III footballSports journalismFamily relocationCollege communityFaith

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Book overview

After fifteen years as a Sports Illustrated writer, pleading for interviews with large men in possession of larger egos, Austin Murphy decides to bail out. The time has come, he concludes, to fly beneath the radar of big-league sports, to while away a season with the Johnnies. So, he moves his family to the middle of Minnesota to chronicle a season at St. John's, a Division III program that has reached unparalleled success under the unorthodox guidance of John "Gags" Gagliardi.

The Sweet Season is an account of what happens when a family pulls up stakes and spends months in a strange and wonderful place. It is also, not incidentally, the story of the most incredible football program in the country, run by a smiling sage who has forgotten more about the game than most of his peers will ever know.

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