What is not dead can never die. In this case "not dead" refers both to the broader Classical enterprise and being wrong as hell about college basketball in a gently competitive setting.
Do you recall the famous reindeer of all? Probably, but the whole story—from his prep years through his recruitment and pro career—is most likely not what you remember.
Everyone knows Joe Maddon is uniquely adept at using creative, unconventional methods to motivate his team. No one knew exactly how creative he was until now.
Skateboarding will soon branch out from the streets and join the Olympics—in 2020 in Tokyo—which the makes the present a timely point to think about skateboarding through a proxy: the anonymous man in Don DeLillo's Point Omega, who spends six consecutive days standing at the back of a museum, enveloped in darkness, observing the minute gradations of a video exhibit wherein Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is played in its entirety at two frames per second.
The defiant defense that makes players inches taller swing the ball to the other side in fear of his stout, leveraged post defense isn’t in doubt; it's the game being close enough for it to matter. The man with 100% Hall of Fame probability still has something to prove.
Sports cartoons were once a staple on American sports pages. Fantagraphics' The Draw Of Sport brings to life the work of Murray Olderman, a lost art's grand master.
