Category Archives: Other sports
Worst Avid Golfer
I was at the barber yesterday waiting for my haircut. He has a collection of coffee table books on baseball and golf. I was flipping through some of them and came across a Hartford Courant clipping from 1985 about a … Continue reading
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Icarus In Spikes
Mariano Rivera saved Enrique Wilson’s life. He blew Game Seven of the 2001 World Series but made his best save ever. Wilson was scheduled to fly home to the Dominican Republic on American Airlines Flight 587. But Arizona defeated the … Continue reading
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Pele As A Comedian
This essay over at Run Of Play riffs on David Foster Wallce’s essay “Roger Federer As A Religious Experience”; an essay I linked six weeks ago. It’s heavier stuff than I’ve been able to write about up to now. It … Continue reading
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This Would Have Been An Interesting Post-Baseball Career
Heard this guy on the radio today talking about Hurricane Earl. Thought he might’ve been John Cangeolosi and not John Cangialosi. In other, unrelated, news Carson Cistulli showed up in my dream the other nite. I don’t recall talking baseball … Continue reading
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Breaking The First Panel
Another Comics Mockage Blog. That girl almost poked my eye out! This Week In Milford tackles Gil Thorp. Sports and the funny pages are two great tastes that taste great together; usually. But this strip has been lame this summer. … Continue reading
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The Baer Essentials
Max Baer was once heavyweight champeen of the world back when that meant something. If you saw Cinderella Man, he was the guy that Braddock had to beat to win the title. On his way to the top, he killed … Continue reading
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NYT: Roger Federer As A Religious Experience
More of David Foster Wallace on tennis. Here’s my favorite part: Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to … Continue reading
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WSJ: Tennis Becomes A Numbers Game
Tennis sabermetrics. This is a sport I’d like to get into more someday.
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Vintage Vintage Base Ball and The Best Year in Sports
I caught June 17, 1994 last month. It (among other things) inspired me to look up the issue of Sports Illustrated that covered that day. While looking through that issue, I stumbled upon this article about a vintage base ball … Continue reading
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Esquire: String Theory
I read this David Foster Wallace piece today. Wimbeldon’s going on right now, after all. And Wallace seems to have a cult following that I’m trying to understand. (I think that both Bill Simmons and Bethlehem Shoals are fans.) I … Continue reading
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