Day: August 10, 2021
How Wrestling Explains …. Nature Documentaries
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.
Ball Don’t Lie: Dunkenstein, Or The Modern Basketball Prometheus
Illustration by Griffen Eckstein. Phil Jackson wakes to the song “Tarzan Boy.” It is the ringtone on his phone. He means to answer it but, as he does most of the time, he delays because he wants to listen to the song a little longer and then misses the call. Already he longs for the
“It’s More Pungent When It’s Done Graphically:” A Conversation With Murray Olderman, The Dean Of American Sports Cartoonists
Sports cartoons were once a staple on American sports pages. Fantagraphics’ “The Draw Of Sport” brings to life the work of a lost art’s grand master.
Santi Cazorla, Tiny Dancer
Santi Cazorla hasn’t played in more than a year, and it’s anyone’s guess when he’ll play again. But the space in the game left by his absence makes his return seem all the more necessary.