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Category Archives: Sports
Sports, Family & Tribe
Americans have many ideas for making soccer more exciting, but for billions of people, soccer is just fine as it is. I gave up long ago trying to talk people into fandom. It either works for you or it doesn’t. … Continue reading
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Allen Guttmann and the Myth of Rational Secularization
Allen Guttmann (b. 1932) keeps an office at Amherst College, brick and bell and the long New England light, and on the shelves stand his own books in several languages. He reads them all. The field calls him sui generis, … Continue reading
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Lowell Cohn and the Stories he Didn’t Write
Lowell Cohn (b. 1945) wrote sports columns in the San Francisco Bay Area for close to forty years, first at the San Francisco Chronicle and then at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, and he arrived at the work sideways, from … Continue reading
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Gloves Off by Lowell Cohn
Cohn is the best sportswriter of the San Francisco Bay Area in the last 50 years. He published a memoir in 2020 called Gloves Off. It’s great. Only his best work. Never dull. Lowell writes: * I wrote why white … Continue reading
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The Marv Albert Voice
Marv Albert (b. 1941) owns a voice you recognize at once. It comes out of Brooklyn. Nasal, gravelly, pitched higher than you expect, with a rasp that puts a hard edge on every word. The accent stays. He never sanded … Continue reading
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Why is college sports such a big deal in the USA and nowhere else?
The prominence of college sports in the United States results from a symmetry between historical timing, geography, and legal frameworks. Most countries developed professional sports clubs in dense urban centers during the industrial era. These clubs formed the foundation of … Continue reading
Decoding Sports Illustrated’s Bathing Suit Issue
When I was young, I looked forward to the Sports Illustrated bathing suit issue so that I could see gorgeous women way out of my league having fun in minimal clothing. In real life, intimacy is often frightening and I … Continue reading
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Decoding Why Pro Sports Was So Reluctant To Test For Steroids
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory read. This was cartel self-protection under asymmetric risk. National Football League, Major League Baseball, and National Basketball Association delayed testing because steroids increased the product while diffusing blame. Bigger bodies, faster recovery, longer careers, more home … Continue reading
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As Sports Leagues Become More Black, How Do These Cultures Change Whiles Whites Still Control Economics?
LF: “As the Premier League has become more black, it has become faster, more intense, more athletic, and I assume strategies have changed as a result. I assume the NBL and the NFl also had similar changes as they become … Continue reading
I love watching sports but I don’t want to waste my time
One thing I do to improve my quality of life while watching sports is to make it a group experience. Another thing I can do is adopt some useful frames on what I’m watching. I particularly watch a lot of … Continue reading
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