The Sporting Life category archive
The Olympic Wrestler 0
Janet Jones, who holds a doctorate and works with horses and riders, explains why the statue of the sumo wrestler at the Olympic steeplechase competition spooked some of the horses. A nugget:
Women Athletes Eye Candy.
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At the Inky, Lisa Scottoline takes a scathing look at the European Handball Federation’s punishing the Norwegian women’s handball team for wanting to wear, God help me, shorts instead of bikini bottoms. Her conclusion:
Vaccine Nation 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
Vaccine Nation 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
In contrast: Speaking for the dumbest sex, Buffalo Bills anti-vaxxer, anti-masker Cole Beasley tweeted, “I may die of COVID, but I’d rather die actually living.” What a drama queen. One who sings in the key of me. The comic irony of NFL players avoiding vaccine needles is that in their line of work, they get shot up more often than race horses.
Yes, It Gets My Goat Too 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
Money Ball 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
Stray Thought 0
I used to look forward to watching college football on New Year’s Day. but the venality and corruption of the NCAA has cured me of that.
Now I spend my New Year’s reading (gasp) books.
But, if you want to wallow in the fascination of large men running into each other, check out AL.com.
It’s an excellent website, but it does indeed reflect Alabama’s fascination with corpulent collisions.
Trickle-On Economics: A Case Study 0
Bob Molinaro, sports-writer extraordinaire:
The First “Cleveland Indian” 0
The Bangor Daily News tells the story of the first Native American major league baseball player, a member of Maine’s Penobscot Nation. It is not pretty.
Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
That legacy of racist language and iconography lived on after Sockalexis, and in 1915 the team that was known as the Cleveland Spiders became the Cleveland Indians — a name that the team and its fans claim was chosen to honor Sockalexis and Native people in general, but in reality had a far more complicated, racist origin.
Trick Play 0
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution follows the money.
False Idols 0
In the Des Moines Register, Kristen Greteman takes issue with the Iowa State University athletic director’s plan to sacrifice the arts, specifically performances at ISU’s Stephens Auditorium, on the altar of football to pay for the football team’s loss of revenue in these viral times.
Random Observation 0
My new Philadelphia Phillies baseball cap was delivered today.
I was afraid that the old one, seen from the wrong angle, might be mistaken for a MAGA hat.
I could not bear the stigma . . . .
