Here is an announcement with an looming deadline, snipped from the Philosophy of Sport blog. Submit your abstract then dress up as a grasshopper for Halloween. (In-joke. The academic philosopher,...
This blog has had a long off-season. Like, five years. It began as a set of reflections on sport over the course of a full calendar year in the world of sport — a year at the beginning of the s...
https://thissportinglife.net/2017/08/28/this-sporting-life-is-about-to-come-to-life-again/
When Lance Armstrong suddenly pleaded “no contest” last week in the USADA’s proceedings against him, my university’s communications office sent out a time-sensitive request to faculty mem...
https://thissportinglife.net/2012/08/28/did-lance-armstrong-cheat/
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/
It goes without saying that most of the chatter on the sports networks comes from the mouths of former players and coaches. There may typically be one journalist or “broadcaster” moderating a...
https://thissportinglife.net/2012/03/07/what-we-cannot-learn-from-former-nfl-players/
It’s now day 5 of “bountygate” and there’s surely very little left to be said. For those not entranced by the blue glow of 24/7 sports gossip on ESPN and the NFL Network (where gaggles of...
https://thissportinglife.net/2012/03/06/bounty-ethics-in-the-nfl/
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/
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/
Nike makes the case for sport. It’s not the whole case — hey, it doesn’t even talk about why sports is great from the couch. And it doesn’t consider the case against. But in two minutes t...