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...
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/
My friend Andrew Potter (author of the sizzling new book The Authenticity Hoax) tweeted a link on Friday to a compelling contrast between the two biggest stars in the world of ice hockey, the ...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/05/04/why-is-hockey-analysis-almost-always-so-lame-part-1/
You have to wonder what the ancient Greeks talked about after their Olympic games finished. (I mean, we know what the modern Greeks talked about, or should have talked about, after their Olympics...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/04/why-olympic-medal-counts-dont-count/
The Wall Street Journal may not have won any journalism medals for its failure to foretell which financial institutions on its eponymous street would crumble first. But they have spared us the le...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/02/who-lost-the-vancouver-olympics/
I suppose the official answer to this question is, “The World,” which according to the IOC mission is supposed to be made “peaceful and better” by “educating youth through sport practis...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/01/who-won-the-vancouver-olympics/
Most sporting events I watch on TV are broadcast exactly the way they were when I was a kid and TVs were small, square, and mostly black-and-white. And even worse, games on TV are still “called...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/02/28/how-to-broadcast-curling/
There’s an irresistible cliché for broadcasters of many sports: the “chess match.” Often an announcer is simply pointing out that there’s a tight back-and-forth battle going on. But to m...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/02/28/chess-on-ice-chess-board-on-pants/
Pretty good, that’s how good. The gold-medal game, like all of the games I can remember between the only two consistently-elite women’s teams — Canada and the USA — was certainly a thrill...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/02/26/how-good-is-womens-hockey/
What happened to the Russian men’s hockey team in their much-hyped showdown against arch-rivals Canada last night? On paper the teams were evenly matched, and clearly the most talented two team...
https://thissportinglife.net/2010/02/26/russians-werent-coming/