Great read

I just flew through a book called The Sweet Season by Austin Murphy. The author, a writer for Sports Illustrated, spent several months following the football team (and their legendary coach, John Gagliardi, who has won several national Division III championships with highly unorthodox--especially humane by football standards--methods) at St. John's University in Minnesota. While football plays a major role in the book, I was surprised by how much of the book was actually about family, faith, life in small-town Minnesota, the fun and travails (mostly the former) of being in college, etc. Very well-written, often laugh-out-loud funny, and sometimes touching. A perfect read for the holiday season.