Winter Olympics Column

     I read a column by Mike Lupica, you may know him for his famous sports novels, as do I. This column was once again about sports, but instead of it being fictional, it was about one of the greatest sporting events of all time. The miracle that will always be remembered in hockey and also in world sports is the topic. Mike Lupica really takes you back to 1980 and retells the fantastic performance by the US in order to knock of the power house of the world, the Soviet Union, in order to advance to the finals of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.
     The facts that are presented from this column really bring of the awe in what occured. The strategies that Lupica uses to keep the reader engaged is incredible. He has a wide variety of sentence length and jumps around to a lot of little topics within the one big topic. One thing i have noticed throughout the columns I have been reading is that there is little to no dialog in them. I guess that's because it's the authors voice that really comes out of these, and not the characters. Also, most of the time there really aren't characters in the columns but more so events of what happend or what's going on in the writers life.

     Columnists have a very unique writing style and it really showcases what you can do with writing other than write on one specific topic. With columns it really opens up a lot of different ideas that a lot of different writers can get out easily.