Hemingway at work on a piece of writing. By Mark Schipper College football is such a permanent fixture in American culture the legendary writer Ernest Hemingway found multiple spots in his novels and short stories to feature the game, never more prominently than the The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio from his 1933 short-story collection, Winner Take Nothing . The story is set at a convent-run hospital in Montana, focusing on a writer recovering from an injury and an excitabl