Nicholas Dawidoff

Nicholas Dawidoff appears in the following:

Roundtable: The NFL's Culture of Violence

Thursday, September 18, 2014

A number of critics believe the National Football League has taken too long to confront what some have described as a culture of violence within the NFL.

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A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

Monday, December 02, 2013

Nicholas Dawidoff talks about spending a year with the New York Jets—from early-morning quarterback meetings to late-night conversations. In Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football he describes the Combine, the draft, the practices, and the strategy meetings. He profiles the Jets' polarizing head coach, Rex Ryan, the general manager, the coaches, players like the cornerback Darrelle Revis, quarterback Mark Sanchez, and the safeties, linebackers, cornerbacks, and enthusiastic rookies who play the game.

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Growing Up With a Mentally Ill Father

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Nicholas Dawidoff tells the story of his coming-of-age in 1970s New Haven in The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball. Faced with a mentally ill and dangerous father, he found a safe haven in baseball.

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Television for Toddlers

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under two not watch television, but only 6% of parents take this to heart. We go behind the scenes of the booming $21-billion preschool entertainment industry. Also, legendary Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai. And how baseball replaced a missing, mentally ill father for ...

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