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/
I’m guessing, conservatively, that 98% of the sporting events I’ve watched in my lifetime have been on TV. And I’m guessing that this fact does not make me stand out among sports fans. Pro...
https://thissportinglife.net/2011/03/09/are_sports_better_live_or_on_tv/
Tip of the hat to GQ‘s (US Edition) February feature for its feature on the “25 Coolest Athlete of All Time.” Most of their picks are actually pretty cool, and in mostly an old-school, cool...
https://thissportinglife.net/2011/02/04/gqs-25-coolest-athletes-of-all-time-pretty-cool/
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito visited the Law School at my university last week, and worked in a curious sports reference for those interested in reading the tea leaves of his moral p...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/09/23/should-we-all-root-for-the-washington-generals/
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/
We can learn a lot about how sports differ from each other by focusing on the role of the officials — referees, umpires, linesmen, judges, timekeepers, and of course video-replay officials. Som...
Dazzling offensive plays are the pop music of sports. Like catchy tunes, they are hard not to love. Even more, they are like the vocals and the melody of pop-music hooks. (You can sing these your...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/07/20/soccer-vs-american-sports-part-3-going-with-the-flow/
In Part 1 of this little series, I argued — well, asserted — that an appreciation of the individual and team defensive plays and strategies is an essential component of sports connoisseurship...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/07/15/soccer-vs-american-sports-part-2-in-praise-of-defense/
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/
A five-part series of posts on what we learn from a bad call in a regular-season baseball game is more than enough. There will be no Part 6. But I can’t help adding a shout-out to a terrific li...