Tag: 2017

  • Brent Musburger’s career is symmetrically bookended by racism and sexism.

  • The football innovation designed to lessen the casualties of the sport (the forward pass) is now the primary source of permanently debilitating and life-threatening injuries.

  • Irony isn’t strong enough to save the soul of baseball from a troublesome publicity stunt

  • Way back in the glory days of 2009, French tennis player Richard Gasquet was competing at a tournament in Miami. He didn’t win the title. During his stay, he sought a good time in a city famous for supplying good times, and went to a Miami nightclub to hear a fellow Frenchman ply his trade on…

  • But what is “sad” about the Tiger Woods story, and for whom is it “sad”?

  • If I didn’t realize, back when I bought that Magic Carpet, that surfing would become a difficult, often times brutal addiction, I certainly didn’t realize that used surfboards would become an addiction too. by Austin Kelley, originally published,. 2017.

  • For those who would prioritize an understanding of sports contests as “events,” the frame of the game is distinct from ordinary life, and the anthem functions as a liminal space—a place between ordinary experience and focus on the game.