Never settle: family, football, and the American soul

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"The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country"--;Foreword / by Eric Church -- Jump! -- Just trust me -- We're not gonna do that -- Interlude: Exile (Dan Le Batard) -- Olivia -- Define your own life -- Poem: Beach girl -- Keep your money -- Dirty 'Merica -- Girl power -- Poem: The middle -- Forever Friday -- Sam, you there? -- Interlude: You'ns (Bob Huggins) -- Gifted -- Father time -- Poem: Out like that -- Be yourself -- Interlude: Bust (Ryan Leaf) -- Workin' hard to get my fill -- Interlude: Murial plays piano (Marc Cohn) -- Chess lessons -- Hunter -- Poem: Old -- Be a light -- I love you, L -- Always dreaming -- Poem: Innocence -- Boston. Stronger -- Wally world -- Interlude: Bomb squad (Chipper Jones) -- Do as I do -- Poem: Cut & paste -- Letters from hell -- Never settle : Radford Commencement.