That was a recent headline from The Onion, and as usual, the short article that followed it pretty much wrote itself. “I’ve never seen a team work in sync with itself as well as A&M did ton...
https://thissportinglife.net/2012/03/07/great-team-chemistry-no-match-for-great-team-biology/
…though he is clearly not lacking in cojones. This post may interrupt the flow of posts on the NFL’s “bountygate” (last seen here) but the surreal juxtaposition probably isn’t out of pl...
https://thissportinglife.net/2012/03/07/this-bullfighter-needs-a-left-tackle/
This blog has been dormant so long it missed an entire baseball season. There are no doubt plenty of thorough accounts of that season; but a very short post-World Series blog post in the New York...
https://thissportinglife.net/2011/10/31/luck-dont-come-easy/
Did Jesus make me (able to) do it? He certainly gets a lot of credit. Not as many shout-outs as He gets at the Grammies. But he still seems to get credit for His fair share of home runs, touchdow...
https://thissportinglife.net/2011/01/21/sport-and-religion-does-jesus-want-you-to-pray-for-his-help/
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...
Here are a couple of quick addenda to the last post on the different types of challenges that officials face in different sports, and how this should affect decisions about introducing technolog...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/08/17/more-on-blown-calls-which-sport-is-worse/
Here’s a quick follow-up to the Imperfect Game controversy I followed over far too many posts, starting here. ESPN The Magazine conducted a (let us say, rather unscientific) poll of 100 major-l...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/06/15/the-players-like-it-imperfect/
Are the businessmen in charge of baseball trying to manage their precarious pre-modern brand by preserving its quaintest features? Or is there a recognition by the high-priests in charge that we ...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/06/10/part_5_quest_to_tame_chance/
The Imperfect Game debate has revived a long-standing debate about how to treat umpires and their fallibility as “part of the game.” Everything we know about human perception and cognitive ps...
The passionate debate shows how much we all interpret baseball players as competing against all of their baseball ancestors as much as they are against their rivals this season. The blown call ma...