The more fabulist side of nature documentaries has largely faded, but there's still a lot more pathos -- and professional wrestling parallels -- to them then you may have realized.
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.
If team sports give a sense of community to their fans, those who choose to follow athletes in individual sports must be searching for something else. But what?
As our nation's leaders make embracing your cultural heritage an explicitly political act, a son of Mexican immigrants reflects on finally finding your roots through football.
Granderson seemed to uncoil from his closed, praying mantis stance to hit a towering home run. I’m sure at least thirty thousand people in the Stadium made a similar observation: He’d look good in pinstripes.
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.
