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Brent Musburger’s career is symmetrically bookended by racism and sexism.
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Drunk fans are passing out at Lambeau Field. Trauma is contagious.
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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…
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But what is “sad” about the Tiger Woods story, and for whom is it “sad”?
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The soccer handball rule is confusing, but, Austin Kelley argues, intention and guilt are concepts that have been vexed in our culture for a long time, long before Freud seized on the tale of Oedipus, who accidentally-on-purpose killed his father, to explain the accidental-on-purpose human condition. Originally published 2016.
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Austin Kelley on the Ravens, a team named after a depressive shut-in spooked by a bird, and the 49ers, haunted by genocide. Originally published 2013.
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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.
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What counts as hate speech? Austin Kelley considers the case of Nicolas Anelka. Originally published 2014.
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Forest Park is known as St. Louis’s “Crown Jewel.” But there’s a basketball-shaped absence at its heart that reflects the city’s fraught racial history.
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If there were one way to beat the Seattle Sports Choke™, I figured it would be a self-sacrificial reverse jinx. Not that I believe in those things. Except that I do, and it worked.
