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In football and book buying, luck helps.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-DEC-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In football and book buying, luck helps.(Columns)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard

It is 1,629 pages long. Weighs 7 pounds and 1 ounce, the size of a small retaining-wall brick. And caused me considerable deliberation when I first saw it while Christmas shopping at the University of Oregon Bookstore last week.

I was shopping for others, but the ``ESPN College Football Encyclopedia'' whispered: ``Take me. I'm yours.''

I am, you might recall, a reference-book and college-football freak. So I picked it up, bending at the knees to protect my back. It was love at first skim: Essays on college football. The result of every game - more than 111,000! - of...

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