In an over-committed personal and professional life — which includes teaching, overseeing another blog, being an editor of an academic journal, trying to get better on electric guitar, running,...
https://thissportinglife.net/2012/02/18/shameless-linsanity-link/
Every professional sports league is like a social science lab experiment for approaches to government regulations. And the NFL is what the European Union would look like if the President of the E...
https://thissportinglife.net/2011/01/21/they-dont-call-it-the-no-fun-league-for-nothing/
I have a keen fascination with the territory between sportsmanship and gamesmanship in sports and other adversarial institutions. That is, between “the high road” of following both the letter...
https://thissportinglife.net/2011/01/19/gamesmanship-showmanship-and-sportsmanship-jets-v-patriots/
It has been a big week for philosophizing about sports at Duke University, where I teach. Perhaps this helps us take our minds off a crushing loss to Alabama, the NCAA football national champions...
A month after the end of the World Cup, I think it is about time I close a few tabs on my browser that have been holding particularly memorable reflections on that delirious month in the early su...
Legendary English striker Jimmy Greaves found opportunities every week to shake his head, smile, and note what a “funny old game” football (soccer) was. We might call that a catchphrase now. ...
Diving is not the story of this World Cup, by any stretch. And I’ve been too wrapped up in what’s been great about the tournament — namely, the tactical match-ups and play on the pitch — ...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/07/08/is-diving-a-problem/
It’s been a terrific World Cup so far. We all have to keep our fingers crossed for the semi-finals and the finals being as intriguing as the quarters, because our individual and collective memo...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/07/06/luddite-officiating-divin/
A busy travel schedule has allowed me to see most of the matches so far, to keep up on the press and bloggers, yet not to comment much myself. But now the real tournament has begun, in the second...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/06/28/world-cup-diary-3-the-beginning-of-the-end/
Do you buy into the mission of This Sporting Life and want to earn some cash explaining why? And are you a student? The International Pierre de Coubertin Committee and the UK-based Institute for ...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/05/05/ethics-business-sport-priz/